laser questions here.

THIZZkid · Post by **THIZZkid** » Tue Dec 28, 2010 12:02 pm

hey i have become very interested in those giant lasers i have only seen on the playa. any body know anything about them i have lots of questions to help my understanding of the laser world.

Post by **Sham** » Tue Dec 28, 2010 12:26 pm

My apologies for the snarky tone, but this may be what your looking for.
http://tinyurl.com/25v5kss

JStep · Post by **JStep** » Tue Dec 28, 2010 12:28 pm

THIZZkid wrote:hey i have become very interested in those giant lasers i have only seen on the playa. any body know anything about them i have lots of questions to help my understanding of the laser world.

read this thread
http://eplaya.burningman.org/viewtopic. ... ight=laser

Graffiti Research Lab has a great "Laser Tag" freeware/copyleft system, open source, using a high output laser pen and a projector that allows you to write on buildings or other monumental structures with lazer light. Pretty kewl. I posted links to them on one of the last few pages on that thread.

neon tetra · Post by **neon tetra** » Tue Dec 28, 2010 12:30 pm

The technology has come a long way in the last few years & has also gotten much more affordable. A quick search should find you plenty of info/products.

Just please, whatever you do, keep them ABOVE eye level!
(or well below. some of the MVs this year had ones a few inches off the ground that made amazing patterns on the playa.)

JStep · Post by **JStep** » Tue Dec 28, 2010 12:34 pm

Shambala wrote:My apologies for the snarky tone, but this may be what your looking for.
http://tinyurl.com/25v5kss

LOL, you did a tiny url forward to the lmgtfy forward. Why not add a bit.ly to it too!

Post by **Sham** » Tue Dec 28, 2010 1:02 pm

JStep wrote:
Shambala wrote:My apologies for the snarky tone, but this may be what your looking for.
http://tinyurl.com/25v5kss
LOL, you did a tiny url forward to the lmgtfy forward. Why not add a bit.ly to it too!

I'm not that sophisticated. I was trying to send the search, but didn't want the sarcastic part. There may be another way to do that.

JStep · Post by **JStep** » Tue Dec 28, 2010 1:20 pm

Shambala wrote:
JStep wrote:
Shambala wrote:My apologies for the snarky tone, but this may be what your looking for.
http://tinyurl.com/25v5kss
LOL, you did a tiny url forward to the lmgtfy forward. Why not add a bit.ly to it too!
I'm not that sophisticated. I was trying to send the search, but didn't want the sarcastic part. There may be another way to do that.

I like lmgtfy, I use it all the time when people ask me, from their computer, about the simple things they could look up themselves.

theCryptofishist · Post by **theCryptofishist** » Tue Dec 28, 2010 2:43 pm

Shambala wrote:
JStep wrote:
Shambala wrote:My apologies for the snarky tone, but this may be what your looking for.
http://tinyurl.com/25v5kss
LOL, you did a tiny url forward to the lmgtfy forward. Why not add a bit.ly to it too!
I'm not that sophisticated. I was trying to send the search, but didn't want the sarcastic part. There may be another way to do that.

Witch! Witch! Burn it!

theCryptofishist · Post by **theCryptofishist** » Tue Dec 28, 2010 2:44 pm

Well, Jstep, Shambala, I hope those were reasonable answers, and that thread drift can now start.

THIZZkid · Post by **THIZZkid** » Thu Dec 30, 2010 11:45 am

ive searched almost everything laser projector and different effects and have found alot on laser pointers but nothing on those really big big lasers that travel the length of the sky. i also have questions on regaurding differnt laser levels. can someone tell me difference between a 5mw laser and a 300mw laser.(please dont tell me 295 mw i already got that thanx) is it just a differnt diode or is there more to it than just that.

JStep · Post by **JStep** » Thu Dec 30, 2010 12:01 pm

THIZZkid wrote:ive searched almost everything laser projector and different effects and have found alot on laser pointers but nothing on those really big big lasers that travel the length of the sky. i also have questions on regaurding differnt laser levels. can someone tell me difference between a 5mw laser and a 300mw laser.(please dont tell me 295 mw i already got that thanx) is it just a differnt diode or is there more to it than just that.

Higher output I believe. Anything larger requires special registration or something with FAA, etc.

If you get one of those handheld 300mw laser pointers in green it will cut the sky, especially with all the dust in the desert. (And I say in green because the eye is most sensitive to green light and the laser light appears brighter to the eye than the same amount of light in red. Blue is between the two.)

THIZZkid · Post by **THIZZkid** » Thu Dec 30, 2010 12:28 pm

yes it cuts the sky but at a size that no one else can really see i want to know how to make the laser look like 7 inches across the sky and why doesnt anyone play with diffraction on those things

Ugly Dougly · Post by **Ugly Dougly** » Thu Dec 30, 2010 12:32 pm

You'll put your eye out!

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