This is amazing. Thanks @packetbob and @JDMc.
Can we put a microphone on it and have it pulse with audio? 
On that note I found this:
Found some knockoff microphones with AGC on AliExpress…
Got some coming and perhaps this will be in V2.0…
Though I did get a bunch of acrylic tube bits from @Gonazar and might try to set up a similar thing with tubes instead of squares… Wondering about trying to sandblast them to get a frosted effect…
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OMG I love that
Just need some cheap hunks of 1/2" plexi…
With the help of @Lefty, the laser tube now has some basic firmware to “fire” the laser.
It has four states: Idle, Charging, Charged, and Firing, that have corresponding sounds and light animations.
The tube can currently be fired by pressing the toggle switch on the tube control panel, or by logging in through a web interface. There are plans to make a standalone firing button as well.
That’s pretty much the basic functionality I was shooting for (;)) for the Breakfast Televison spot. A few more ideas in the works for Maker Faire and eventually the wall mounting at the space.
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I have lots, some of it is 0.75 inches thick
Video Please!!!
Just wanted to thank @JDMc and @Lefty for taking on the programming…
I was pretty much stuck at just running the strand test code…
If possible please get a copy of the video clip…
I’m out of town for the next week so won’t be able to watch it…
I love the idea of a stand alone wireless firing button…
Though a red one would be best I do have a green one we can use…
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I saw it in action earlier when I dropped off some stuff. Looks and sounds
awesome!
Having seen it in the “flesh” now, I’m amazed! Great job! @packetbob and @JDMc now have their Someone Did badges!
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done!
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I’ll drop the laser off tonight
We can figure out where to mount it
@TomKeddie donated a big red button so I will mount it on a box along with an ESP-01 so that it can be used to trigger the tube
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In theory, @xquared and I have a button that should do that already. Just need the Wi-Fi at the space.
a button that needs to be mounted to a box
FYI…
I started to put the brackets back on yesterday…
Left it on top of the solder station benches…
I plan to mount it vertically at the top of the column to the left of the TV…
Then will make (less someone else beats me to it) a Wi-Fi enabled big switch…
Then we just need some code to glue the two together and perhaps have it turn off based on time of day or ???
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I got some rudimentary code working for a party cat, the turning it off idea could be pretty good
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