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Pleased to meet you! London Laserium, '78-'80, here. Went freelance with my own gear for another 8 years. Back in the game, building my own rig for the living room, now. 😎

And I you. You’re one a few who knows what a General Scanning galvo is! I’d love to do it again, save for the cost. And then there’s the CDRH to deal with in this country. Keep me on your radar. If you post something cool let me know. Love to watch. One night we opened up the window on the planetarium and scanned some low clouds. There was a religious group who had come to the neighborhood, and they thought they had seen god, haha. Kind of an impish thing we did, but I couldn’t resist. The good ole days….

@@bwmcelya Yeah, I can't resist messing with sheeple of blind faith, neither. LOL! Costs are now a fraction of back in the day. CDRH has no authority within the privacy of my home, not being a public event with liabilities. 1W RGB projectors start ~$1k ea. I've developed a custom PCB, based upon a $40 Teensy T4.1 that can support 2 scanning heads/projectors + a lumia projector (Danube, Hoe Down, etc). My controller is a common $400 MIDI mixer + Reaper's DAW @ $62 unlimited license. IOW, a basic single projector living room Laserium system is about the same cost as a decent 5.1 A/V system. Also, check out Christopher Short's (GOAT ILDA awardee) excellent YT laser videos. He also developed 'The Radiator" laser synth, which is a stand alone turnkey option for ~$2k via X-Lasers. Planning to reveal my T4 Laser Synth within a few months on a new Photon Lexicon Forum thread, where many old Laserium laserists hang out. Lots of interesting reading for laser enthusiasts. Hope to see you there. Of course, I'm 'TheHermit". 😎

Yep. Spectra Physics 164 1 W RYGB Krypton ion laser, 4 x/y pairs of General Scanning 124 open loop scanners, a Teac 1440(?) 4 track reel-reel, & Mark 4 Laser Images custom built laser synth, with analog oscillators. Yeah, I used to dream of cycloids during my sleep. I believe that the intensity of the imagery brands itself into the visual cortex, similar to "the echoes of the amplifiers, still ringing in my head" after concerts. Now, I've returned to the artform I love(d) to build an new Laserium-like system, just for retirement fun. BR.😎

🎶🎶🧜‍♀️That’s so frickin AWESOME 🧜‍♀️🎶🎶😻

"... so, feel free to sit back, relax, and enjoy Laserium.," as I used to tell my audiences at the London Laserium '78-'80. Yes, those were the best years of my life, as well. Now, @ 72 I'm developing my own gear for the living room, just for an enjoyable retirement. Glad to hear you enjoyed Laserium in SF. BR.

@@TheOleHermit Wonderful! You are the calming voice at the beginning of the show. That was part of the experience as well. Thank you.

@@pauleandersonmusic TBH, that SF laserist's name was Ron. I was at the London Planetarium. AFAIK, he's still at the Exploratorium, but no longer doing Laserium shows, after the demise of Laser Images Inc, the company who produced them. BR

Thanks for doing the London shows. It must have been Ron that I heard, but I don't remember that level of detail. The video reminded me mostly of how incredible it was. I was speaking in general when I said you are the voice...I was speaking in general and just praising in general anyone involved in making specifically the Dark Side of the Moon laser show possible. Something about that particular album really lends itself to that type of presentation. I think a lot of people would like to see it come back in planetariums, but I have no idea what that would involve. Thanks for being a part of such a unique collaboration on so many levels.

I’m in my twenties and it still really hits. It really accentuates my already existing existential dread

he pees in snow the rest is editing

@@TheOleHermit Even better. Although I always hated Laserium’s software - except it did run on a Mac.

@@TheOleHermit Choreographics Was Laserium’s software for the Mac. I used it in plenty of live displays. I didn’t care it except I did love the platform it was written for.

@@TheOleHermit I was trying to sell a projector system on PL when some guy started dogging me because he couldn't believe that such a nice system was actually for sale. He ruined my chances to sell the gear. I left the forum and never went back. I do daily read ILDA's Laserist forums however.

@@FrankPSF I would bet the guy was Laserboy, who tried pulling the same stunt with me on ILD Render's thread, where I was trying to research that product to enable ILD file processing with my laser synth. We had previous confrontations, as well. With ads in his signature, every post is another ad, stepping on my every post, as well as hijacking the thread (whose owner had already abandoned, as well.). So, I went negative and James included it in his replies for sympathy. But, when I tried to briefly share my code on Google Drive with a C++ developer (then take the link down), James included my private link in his post, then argued against taking it down. I reported him to Admin, who then told James to delete his posts and be confined to within his Laserboy thread. Haven't seen him on PLF since. I assume that you are referring to ILDA,com's laserist forum, but I'm not a member (yet) and may join just to compete in the competition... or not. Your projector sounds very interesting. I have OPT Laser's 3W RGB, low divergence projector, with DT-40's + a DIY build, using the same RGB module, but with C506 galvos with 3rd party scan amps, which aren't any better than DT-40. (pisses me off that they won't sell Saturn 5, w/o a $3k Kvant price tag) My fav stage config back in the day was L&R forward facing beamers + projections onto a middle screen. Planning on adding a 3rd projector later on this year, after my latest multichannel PCB has been tested. Will also repurpose the innards of my 2 el cheapo projectors (getting acquainted with LDs + current galvos, minimal newbie F/U consequences, knowing that I would ultimately rebuild) into lumia projector(s). Yeah, low budget, DIY full Laserium living room is my final goal. A 1W imaging projector would be fine for recording videos (swamidog style) but OPT has discontinued all products below 5W. TARM's 2.5 W single mode projector @ $1.5k looks tempting. But, yours sounds potentially even a better option, if it's still available. Do you have a sales site? BTW, out of respect for other folks' channels and forum threads, I usually delete my posts after the OT conversations have concluded, so my previous ones will start disappearing, leaving it looking like you're talking to yourself. JS

@@FrankPSF I would bet the guy was Laserboy, who tried pulling the same stunt with me on ILD Render's thread, where I was trying to research that product to enable ILD file processing with my laser synth. We had previous confrontations, as well. With ads in his signature, every post is another ad, stepping on my every post, as well as hijacking the thread (whose owner had already abandoned, as well.). So, I went negative and James included it in his replies for sympathy. But, when I tried to briefly share my code on Google Drive with a C++ developer (then take the link down), James included my private link in his post, then argued against taking it down. I reported him to Admin, who then told James to delete his posts and be confined to within his Laserboy thread. Haven't seen him on PLF since. I assume that you are referring to ILDA,com's laserist forum, but I'm not a member (yet) and may join just to compete in the competition... or not. Your projector sounds very interesting. I have OPT Laser's 3W RGB, low divergence projector, with DT-40's + a DIY build, using the same RGB module, but with C506 galvos with 3rd party scan amps, which aren't any better than DT-40. (pisses me off that they won't sell Saturn 5, w/o a $3k Kvant price tag) My fav stage config back in the day was L&R forward facing beamers + projections onto a middle screen. Planning on adding a 3rd projector later on this year, after my latest multichannel PCB has been tested. Will also repurpose the innards of my 2 el cheapo projectors (getting acquainted with LDs + current galvos, minimal newbie F/U consequences, knowing that I would ultimately rebuild) into lumia projector(s). Yeah, low budget, DIY full Laserium living room is my final goal. A 1W imaging projector would be fine for recording videos (swamidog style) but OPT has discontinued all products below 5W. TARM's 2.5 W single mode projector @ $1.5k looks tempting. But, yours sounds potentially even a better option, if it's still available. Do you have a sales site? BTW, out of respect for other folks' channels and forum threads, I usually delete my posts after the OT conversations have concluded, so my previous ones will start disappearing, leaving it looking like you're talking to yourself. JS

was just thinking that as I watched. "ooh, would be SO cool on my white cathedral ceiling!" YES!

@@tracycapilot2002 this is by far my favorite video to run in my home theatre. I’m going to give it another run tonight!

they're seizure tickles

god's hand in marriage

opinions are like assholes and now I reverse my intention. have a good session