LaserDock - 'World's first Laser Entertainment System' SETUP & DEMO
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- Опубліковано 28 вер 2016
- The music visualisation RGB laser show projector for home entertainment and DJs.
NOTE - This video features a demonstration of an early beta version of the visualisation software. PLEASE CLICK "SHOW MORE"....
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The LaserDock is available from
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Zoom - Vibe Tracks
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Faith - Vibe Tracks
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NOTE - No money has changed hands for this video. The projector shown has been provided on loan for this demonstration. Whether you choose to buy one or not will have no financial impact upon myself. I receive income from the google adsense adverts shown alongside this video. Techmoan is a tech and entertainment channel and does not make sponsored videos.
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Q) Can it play Video?
A) Not in the way a home cinema projector plays videos - however pre-recorded line drawn animations are a possibility with the right player software. Here’s an example / 776462775505694720
Q) Can you use it to play Oscilloscope demos?
A) Yes with the right software this could work as a giant oscilloscope display.
Q) What kind of games could you display on a laser projector?
A) There is a limitation to the number of lines that can be shown at any one time - however here is a demonstration of a simple laser game • Laser super hexagon
Q) Can you put the handle/mount on upside-down?
A) Yes it can be unscrewed and put back on the bottom...however there is absolutely no point as the image can be flipped in software and when the handle is on the bottom it won't move fully forward or back, so the LaserDock will no longer fit in its case.
Q) Why was this video uploaded twice?
A) Somehow the first upload of this video got corrupted on youtube so it had to be re-uploaded. It takes a while to upload & process a 5GB file, the video was not available during this period.
Q) Actually...I think you'll find that it's not the "worlds first"....blah blah blah..
A) The title of this video contains a quote (identifiable by the quote marks) from here www.wickedlasers.com/laserdock Take up any grievances you have with them.
Q) What is the point of the Interlock?
A) The item provided in the box is a simple wire bridge between two points - this can be extended out to a separate switch used to deactivate the projector remotely (as projectors are commonly installed out of reach they could be difficult to turn off) - here is an example of a switch en.beglec.com/product/4210/Las...
Q) What do the FDA have to do with approving a laser device for use in the USA?
A) Here's the appropriate page on their website www.fda.gov/radiation-emitting...
Q) What do the insides look like?
A) This: c1.iggcdn.com/indiegogo-media...
For more technical info and support - visit the Reddit Sub / laserdock
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All you need now is a fog machine and you'll have "Club Techmoan"
Yep, it would be really cool to see how it looks using a fog mashine.
Turn that garage into an underground night club :)
I'll come! If you blow smoke from the bong between the laser projector and the wall you get wicked lines in the air
scream if u wanna go faster
I'd go to that club
In a world where we have all the resolution we want, a simple line image looks amazing and unique
Vector animation is always future-proof.
Sadly vector CRTs are dwindling in supply...
Well, people are starting to make vacuum tubes again, right?
Maybe someone will start to make CRT's again as well!
Evan Verburg - vector CRTs are a specialist item... they are used in games like *Asteroids* to get that crisp line goodness !!
I know, but that doesn't change the fact that people might make those again
BTW, this video is great for testing OLED displays
*Q) Why was this video uploaded twice?*
*A) Somehow the first upload of this video got corrupted on youtube so it had to be re-uploaded. It takes a while to upload & process a 5GB file, the video was not available during this period.* Additional FAQs in the video description Text Box
Interesting was there were no comments except one about the corrupted quality. Appreciate that you fixed it that fast. Thank you.
love your videos boo
So that's the video that was deleted from my "Watch Later" playlist :P
ambercore1000 The colours were messed up on the first upload.
thank u! already watched it the first washed out time but ill give it another watch here!
Man...that thing would be cool with a fog machine.
Unless you were, you know, projecting at a wall or screen.
@@TheRealColBosch In my experience (with a friend's self-built laser projection devices), the fog lets through enough light that the image still looks good on a non-white, uneven wall/ceiling, while still producing nice effects in the fog.
@@TheRealColBosch Trust m, it would be cooler even if it had a screen. because it turns the 2D into 3D!
And LSD
“Quick start guide: Website”
Ah imagine years down the line when this is vintage technology and people like techmoan are reviewing this for people then and having to deal with websites being taken down or not existing at all
It’s akin to someone loosing the manual
Internet Archive website and their waybackmachine should have copies of it. Assuming government censorship doesn't take it away from us.
If I want to chill out and see something interesting and pleasant to listen to, it's Techmoan. Both the man and the music. Thanks for all your great work!
I wonder if you can shine it onto clouds at night? That would be cool!
TAOFLEDERMAUS Weird seeing you here!
TAOFLEDERMAUS i think not because clouds are to far in the sky for it
RickDoet but lasers go forever without losing focus
just point a laser pointer in the sky at night see how far it goes (dont point it at planes/helicopters tho lol)
Michael Cody yeah i know but some lasers are weak and cant reach that distance just what i was thinking
TAOFLEDERMAUS Just be incredibly careful that there aren't any planes up there. They may be above the clouds so you don't see them while the laser still goes through the cloud and hits the plane.
"Oh, I'm not going to watch the whole light show. It's too long."
8 minutes later, I scraped that idea.
I like that you always review really interesting and unheard-of or hard to find products and formats. Your channel is like no one else's and I really appreciate what you're doing here.
You always pick great tracks for these visual wonders... I was grooving in my chair for an excellent 7 and a half great minutes.
The dancing silhouettes reminds me of the classic Amiga demo 'Spaceballs'. Anyone remember this??
Exactly what I thought as well when I saw it.
I was about to say the same thing (although the demo was called 9 Fingers; Spaceballs was the demogroup. #pedant)
I think i remember Spaceballs, but what about "The Juggler" that ray traced thing from memory.
Yes that is so true, and the Commodore 64 before it.
The Atari 8-bit was *way* better than the C64, and in many ways is the spiritual ancestor of the Amiga. #flamewar
The power connector is a powerCon by Neutrik (if it's genuine), those are really neat little connectors.
I think it's a "clone" -- I can't see any branding on the plug or socket, and I've only ever seen the silver latch on speakON plugs.
It was a genuine one, I've fitted hundreds of them, it had their name on it, [ top of the insert shaft embossed ] top kit for live/installation gear.
I'm unconvinced; if it were genuine then the socket should have Neutrik embossed on it at the bottom of the outer ring, and the right side of the plug (the one visible when he plugs it in) should have some sort of "Do not disassemble" warning printed on it. Also, unless they've changed recently, the solid blue (20A) powerCON connectors have a yellow latch. The only blue ones with a silver latch are speakON connectors, and while the 30A powerCON does have a silver latch it's a different shape and the barrel is grey.
***** Ok, watch the video again this time in 4k, then buy 100 units from Neutrik directly, fit them to all your bands cables and then come back and tell us what they look like. The powerCon have had silver metal latches since 2012.
They're good connectors and can handle quite a bit of power - 30 amps if memory served me correctly. My ion laser power supply MK IV uses one to carry the filament current to the plasma tube (25 amps at 2.5v DC)
Once again I tune into TechMoan and suddenly hours have passed by.
Great work- great videos- well produced- and I envy what you do!
Absolutely fantastic! What a great spectacle ♥
That is so neat. I love the look of vector graphics.
Being 48 perhapes is a good reason for why I like this machine. Big fan of vector imaging!. ty for putting up ... you really do have a heart.
Very hypnotic! Software to allow you to type in words/messages and project them would be outstanding!!!
One of the best channels on youtube, great work!
My 3 months old son loved the visualizations... 😂😂😂 Thank you for the excellent review, as always!
Sir, I enjoy every one of your videos regardless of the content. It's a fresh and soothing experience and I absolutely love it even if the products you review have no concern to me. Keep up the great work!
That's a steal. It's absolutely awesome!
Really cool. looking forward to future videos on this laser projector. I can imagine a lot of people will be fiddling with this thing.
What a fantastic piece of kit
awesome video! can't wait to go home and project this on my screen
Just a quick note of appreciation !!
Love your informative videos and especially all the vintage goodies, they are ALL quite interesting ...just a fan subscriber from Canada about your age I would guess (circa 1963)
Keep them coming!!
Cheers,
Mark
Very impressive effects - wow.
just waiting to somebody hack it to play classic vector based arcade games ;)
Imagine Vectrex on this thing...
It's certainly possible!
Tempest will be fun
Laser MAME already exist
And in fact MAME already works on OpenLase (which I wrote) - which is the same software that the Laserdock Visualizer is based on. So yes, Laser MAME on this projector is literally a 10 minute job if you know what you're doing (though documentation is scarce, I'm mostly to blame for that).
You need to change the caps on that
And as always - another great review! Keep it up!
Looks amazing! This is definitely for those dj's that have those huge parties
This thing is amazing. What a cool piece of kit! The music is cool too.
I've reliving the entire day again
Good attempt for a home personal laser light unit. Love the channel. Thanks
Great review and a very cool laser!
Thanks Matt, great review as always.
wow you have a lot of people supporting you on patreon! very impressed
usually I have to watch techmoan videos with 240p due to my rubbish phone contract but tonight I'm watching at 1440p tonight on big screen thanks again for another video techmoan feet up with a beer
I love that little machine! What beautiful images!
This is amazing. Seriously ❤️ this channel.
What a laser visualizer? i need this thing now!!!!
brilliant!! - really looking forwards to the followup on this Mat. Especially now the software has had an update.
Those colors must look AWESOME in real life. What a neat device.
I realy like this laser projector. And i like the danzing man!
Most impressive was the motorised projection screen! :)
That thing is MAD! I want one!!!!
Thanks for this, Techmoan. I've got the flu right now, and the laser demo is exactly what I needed to chill.
fantastic idea with the vectrex!
nice projector screen by the way.. that thing is slick! pops out of the desk and all..
I never thought i'd ever see the day where Bad Apple makes a slight cameo in a Techmoan Video!
Good job :P
Reminds me some Winamp visialisations and also old demoscene works, some of them were really amazing.
For a private person this is costly for basically a toy, but for a club or a cafe this might be almost a must have item.
Thanks for the playlist!
Great video - thanks!
The perfect video to find having just smoked a large joint... cheers! :)
beautiful, playing games on that would remind me of that scene in futurama when the planet express crew are playing a shoot em up 'on the internet'
i want this thing to play along with my alarm in the morning.... that'll help me wake up with a smile at least.. it's such an amazeballs
Keep up the good work man !
Holy macaroni that’s a bloody good bit of kit! I run an internet radio station, it’s a sub of the longest running hardcore record label & I do a weekly show that I also upload the video to UA-cam, not on this account as this is my personal account. Anyhoo, I have a fair amount of the led laser effect lights & for my show they work amazing, I do have a 400w smoke machine also to make them look better. This has intrigued me immensely, not for my radio show but the label I work for we are going to be putting on club nights later this year & I think this could be an ideal bit of bit for that! After all ravers love lasers!😂 Matt thanks for bringing this to my attention, albeit a few years later!😂 I had never found this whilst searching for proper laser systems before!👍🏻
wow what a product but out of my price range. thank you for making the efforts to show us.
Neat...I can't stop thinking about basement parties and weird lighting at them when I was much younger.
Cool stuff man!!!!!!!
Looks really awesome. Great for partys (especially when combined with the right drugs)
Beautiful
Wow that's amazing looking hard to believe a LAZOR does that
WOW great video love the sound track from YouTue great stuff
*Takes outside and points up*
Party on the moon!
I wish I had a neighbor like you when I was growing up! Your videos as Mel Torme would say, "Are Tops!"
Decent piece of gear. And as always...great video. I have afew DJ lights set up in the man cave. They add flavor to the music...and if you want to bust-a-move...
This looks mesmerizing on my OLED!
This thing is amazing. I want one!
Top vid fella
Would be interesting to combine it with a fog machine. 3D objects would be floating in Techmoan's smoke filled living room ;)
Interesting device! Thanks for showing!
Well, not quite "Fantasia", but definitely better than 60s "Color Organs" with the colored Christmas tree lights behind a plastic diffuser. They basically just divided the incoming audio into low, medium and high bands and drove various colors with that.
It must look spectacular in person, but I'm reminded of Windows Media Player visualization on a small screen.
Excellent video as always. Thanks.
Amazing device.
Nice trip. Thank you.
Tottally works like oscilloscope.
that thing is soooooo cool!
Oohhhhhh I'm interested to watch this one, cheers ✌🏼👍🏽✌🏼👍🏽
Your comment about the Vectrex was exactly what i was thinking as i was watching this. If they implemented that i would open my wallet without question
why did i only see this now? That thing is awesome!
Love to see a DMX enabled version at some point! (mainly for pro theatrical productions)
+Techmoan The power connector on the LaserDeck is actually a PowerCon. Entertaiment industry standard. Most theatrical lights and Line array speakers use the adapter.
Glad you suggested vector graphics gaming there because I (and I assume every other codger old enough to remember Battlezone) had the exactly the same idea :)
I love your intro's.
It was like that funny scene of 2001 hahaha. Great system mate, very gear
welcome to the techmoan nightclub ;)
I've seen this exact thing last year at a shopping mall I sometimes go to. It was being used to project vector-style advertising imagery on the floor, wall, and ceiling. I searched for the thingy that was projecting the image. It took a while to find it suspended from the ceiling next to a support beam, but I did, and looked exactly like this thingy in your video.
Tripped out with the music and the laser....forgot i was watching a Techmoan
I still have an old "laser" light unit i bought for Spencer gifts back in the mid 80s. 100 dollars. it was made by "with design in mind". I still use it and for what it does its cool.
i've managed nightclubs and this thing looks cooler and is dramatically cheaper than a lot of professional lasers that clubs use. if the build quality is as solid as it looks, i'd actually consider using this for a professional setup as well. looks fantastic.
That's amazing!
I know i’m late but the front frame looks like a pangolin ilda rgb laser. Love the fact that the ilda control module is integrated in the laser. And those 15-20 kpps mirror scanner are doing an amazing job! Currently using a cr-tech surpass-s mk3 3w rgb laser which burned my phone’s back camera…
The tunnel effect is the best one.
Dude i can literally have a party for myself all night with that thing.
Very cool and very oldschool at the same time. I can see this in various nightclubs, it does the job but the lasers must be dangerous for the eyes (I guess). It should be enclosed in something for party use (I guess). Thanks for all the cool videos, I'm a regular listener and you are part of my weekly habits. :-)
I enjoyed the light show on a 3D TV it was awesome.
With all this stuff you need your own museum to put em in and show everything off for a small price of admission which would count as a donation to the cause as well of course.
Have to say, I love the fact that you have a hidden projector screen in your living room. That's gotta impress the guests if they aren't distracted by the wall o' hifi, haha.
ACTUALLY…. I believe my ITT Tech graduation project was the first portable automatic laser entertainment show in a ready to go box as it was designed and built to completion and demonstrated at ITT San Bernardino in 1994. It’s most amazing feature was that everything fit within the confines of an average sized business document brief-case! But the outside world was unaware of our creation. In fact, this is the first time I’ve mentioned it in a public forum. Back in 1994 there was no Internet for consumer use, no web browsers, nor smart cell phones that could record videos for later, so we really had no easy way to document and advertise or show off the concept at the time to the outside world. We wouldn’t have even really conceived of that at the time, it was just an open-ended project creation assignment which I chose the form of the product to build upon which our graduation depended on completing for ourselves. Things would be different now!
It had many primary goals which it achieved well, including thee off-axis variable speed spun mirror pattern generation ultra responsive to the music via cross-over filtration of the music, built in audio amp, built in play. It also all fit inside of a small briefcase which you could set down, pop open and it would automatically position itself at the correct angles to project the laser output and was ready to go! Five of us worked on various circuits of the project from power supply to audio sensing to motor control to audio amp to laser tube supply,. The project worked as planned and was a success. I still wish I had physical possession of the finished project. I loved that thing.
Perhaps one day I will redo it modernized with different color laser diodes instead of a solid state laser tube (flashlight sized) so I can vary both the intensity of the colors in addition to the shape of movement. Might also try x-y axis mirrornipulations for ore randomness of patterns on at least one mirror stage instead of off axis variable speed rotational spinning from stepper motors. Would also like a cross-over filtration circuit that doesn’t make assumptions about bass mid and tebble peaks but rather can find and track the peaks itself if there is a discrete electronic method way to do that rather than actively programmed something else. Would gain significantl space by kicking the CD drive to the curb as the music source and finding some kind of amplifier that runs AAC or HVEK audio files from a thumb drive or just bluetooth the music over from a phone app. User assigned color would be nice too to determine which of the three channels gets R, G, or B. Manual old school digital type joystick control to interfere with the mirror stage controls would also be a fun add-on. We got an A on the project. The class absolutely loved it. Oh yeah, it also had a heater circuit for managing release of dry ice to enhance the ability of the lasers to be seen by all. Teachers and students from other classes were even stopping in to see the laser music projection system in action. Such an amazing fun project to envision, plan, manage, and assemble. OH I’d would definitely do it again, but next time a marketing plan to sell a revamped version to the public.
I still see a market for our version of the portable laser-show product which does not require use of additional computer hardware or any kind of programming to make an instantly entertaining AV-synchronized mesmerizing laser show which never completely repeats the same pattern twice. Wish all my lab partners were still around to make a 2.0 version but that’s OK, as I retained all the circuit diagrams.. I figured at the time that those were more important than the physical project itself which could be recreated later, but not faithfully without the original corrected final design circuit plans and physical diagrams. It could have been a nightmare integrating each person's separate circuit contribution but because we master-planned it sectionally from the beginning under a rigid expectation of exactly which kinds of inputs and output connection types or section to section signals would be connecting everything all mapped out in advance, everything went together like butter! It pays to carefully plan ahead on large projects with multiple contributors. Advice to future electronics school graduates working on group graduation projects: A. You must lay out a semi-rigid roadmap with intermediary goals to achieve to keep everyone on track and in harmony ended for creating a single, working prototype device tapping the talents of several people to bring it all together. Lastly, B. Keep your group size to six or less people as groups of 7 is where cohesion becomes more of a major challenge. both for the project manager to keep track of everyone’s progress and for purposes of group decision making, its exponentially harder to get everyone to agree on everything once you reach 7 people in total in a group. Jut saying’. :)
Wohooo, i love this stuff
It´s such a smart choice that it uses Neutrik powerCON since that means it can be really easily integrated in to many exiting setups.