scanjector page is up….

on top of the 32 modules for the interactive light installation i’m working on for Natalie Lambert, the scanners arrive tomorrow from Dav of Pointless Creations. some serious hacking and mangling of these will be required to retrofit an lcd projector instead of the halogen light and gobo’s that are in there just now.

this could be a lot of fun! however i have realised i could do with 36 hours in a day instead of the standard 24….

Well things are hotting up round here with the impending start of the GI festival. With each passing day I get roped into assisting with more and more shows!
There’s some wonderful stuff coming up, including A Typical Root, Vestiges Park and the Beer and Pub Project. See the previews at Glasgow Internationa

Several years ago I used to co-promote a club night in Glasgow called Cypher, with my good friend Chris and a lot of help from some friends, mostly the dark-haired one called D (cheers!).

We “acquired” an Optisolar 250 gobo projector, and we spent a small fortune on a metal gobo with our logo for the events. I was always intriegued to see if it would be possible to build a small, portable slide projector for advertising purposes, something we could mount in the street and leave, so it had to be cheap enough and easy to build so that if it was stolen/broken/confiscated then it wouldn’t be any great loss. But as usual it was always just a bit of a pipe dream, until now.

I’ve been playing around with this again in recently, and so far have tried a number of options involving Luxeon LED’s, 35mm slides, small LCD displays, Li-Ion batteries, various lenses(from slide projectors, cameras telescopes etc) and a host of other components for constant current circuits, and more recently i’ve been investigating the use of lasers for this project.

There’s a few sites around these days with similar ideas and inspiration.

Graffiti Research Lab Seriously good projects to combine graf and electronics. Unfortunately i dont have a powerful projector at my dispossal, plus its likely to be stolen, broken or confiscated round these parts, and ideally I want to mount this and walk away for these reasons, so its got to be “disposable” in a sense.

Troika A London based design collective who developed an ingenious hand held battery operated projector, that displays text messages! Not sure what their light source is, but it looks like their battery pack is a separate unit judging by the wire that disappears up the sleeve of the operator. A highly professional finish though like all their projects. I’d love a peek inside that thing.

Intructables.com Loads of good tutorials for building things. Recently echo_anomie added his own instructable for his laser powered projector. He’s got some fantastic results out of it, and if my finished unit performs half as well then i’ll be happy!

“Reach for the lasers, safe as fuck!” er…. not quite, lasers will blind you kids! ;o)

Another option is to utilise light sources already in place, such as the powerful flood lights that lots of buildings have to illuminate them at night. I’d need to somehow containing the light with a sheet of metal, with a lens and a slide mounted to it, but thats a bit harder to try and test….

I’m still experimenting and writing up a page of its own for this project, so stop by shortly to see if there’s any progression.