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- From: andy@laguna.santafe.edu (Andy Mell)
- Subject: Re: lasers/collimated light i
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- Date: Sat, 02 Jan 93 01:36:37 GMT
- Organization: Santa Fe Institute
- References: <1993Jan1.4265.27388@dosgate>
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- In article <1993Jan1.4265.27388@dosgate> "glen mead" <glen.mead@canrem.com> writes:
- >andy@laguna.santafe.edu (Andy Mell) writes:
- >
- >AM>I just went to have a look on the side of my emulator, it is made by
- >AM>Lightwave research, Austin, TX, USA. I dont have a full address, but yo
- >
- >So you have one of these units yourself? What do you use it for? Have
- >you ever opened it up? I'm curious about how hard it would be to build
- >one of these units?
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- We use it for the Uni Students Union, in discos, live bands etc. Its not
- owned by me personlly, so I guess you could call it professional use.
-
- No, I've never opened it up, and Im not about to, but I believe it uses laser
- galvonometers to direct the beam. I somehow doubt that you can build one
- yourself for a reasonable amount as they are precision engineering, the
- emulator controller is a custom computer (i960 or something) It is about
- a metre long and 40 cm wide by 30cm high.
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- Andy Mell, Applied Physics Department, | andy@santafe.edu
- University of Hull, Hull, HU7 6RX | amell@nyx.cs.du.edu
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