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Geoff hasn’t put instructions for this up yet, but I have some shots of the new version of the laser show… don’t worry, they’re coming soon!

Well, a concept is all very well and good, but if the parts are unaffordable or unavailable it isn’t going to be much good. It took me a little while to find some good places to buy from, and here’s what I found out.

This is probably the coolest thing I’ve ever made. It’s quite a step up from the Five Dollar Laser Show I posted a bit back. The only logical step after building that was to drastically increase the power and number of beams.

Laser safety is serious business. No no, not in the internet meme sense, but blind you forever with no way ever to fix it serious. I know I’m about to rant, but I’ll do it anyways. This applies double for any girl/boy geniuses working with lasers. I know that you’re going to play with lasers [...]

When I first built Dr. Altman’s Amazing Laser Music Can, I was captivated. This is true science! Gorgeous laser light that was unimaginable before the development of quantum physics. Patterns generated by varying partial derivatives of the surface of a rigid plate on a vibrating membrane – and you thought calculus was boring! I loved [...]

I’ll be honest – I didn’t take anywhere near enough pictures of this. After the first hour I quickly descended into a geek trance and emerged a few hours later, slightly disheveled and holding a working working laser show but possessing only 13 pictures, many of which were terrible and irrelevant. So I apologize, and [...]

A Chicago Tribune story I was interviewed for, and how to embed high quality YouTube videos in your webpage.

I was searching through YouTube and came across Dr. Altman’s “Amazing Laser Music Can” which I thought was a very impressive effect for very little money. I had a spare Sunday afternoon, and decided to make one for myself.