<a href="https://graffitiresearchlab.com/blog/projects/laser-tag/#video" rel="nofollow">https://graffitiresearchlab.com/blog/projects/laser-tag/#vid...</a><p>everything old is new again, and toys will be toys
Thanks! This was absolutely the inspiration - and I've also mentioned it on the page (right under the video) and in the repository's Readme.
Heh I was just about to say, people were doing stuff like this at Parsons/ITP a decade and a half ago, at least...haven't thought about GRL in a while, thanks for the flashback
i’m so happy this is the top comment. i’m someone who found the GRL as… a middle schooler and boy was it the coolest thing i’ve ever seen at the time
This is even older (I think), similar idea of building interactive experiences using off-the-shelf lasers: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20040202205307/http://www.monzy.org/audience/" rel="nofollow">https://web.archive.org/web/20040202205307/http://www.monzy....</a>
This is what I immediately thought of as well, I'm just grateful you remembered the name of the project.<p>An absolute blast from the past, thank you for unlocking the memories of me reading these cool projects way back when!
kids don't think we have memories.
Very cool. I remember seeing a video of some people doing this on a whole building… found it: <a href="https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=DKbtTPYZEig&t=30s" rel="nofollow">https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=DKbtTPYZEig&t=30s</a>
While this is interesting, what I <i>really</i> wanted to see was more 'graffiti' and less 'laser'.<p>Graffiti, fundamentally, is a defacement of public property as a form of artistic self expression. To that end, why not combine this with a laser <i>engraver</i> instead of a laser <i>pointer</i>?<p>Imagine hooking this up and then literally <i>carving</i> your graffiti into the side of a brick building. Or burning it into the paint on a metal container car.<p>Obviously such a thing has the potential for serious bodily harm and could start building or wild fires inadvertently, to say nothing of the energy consumption requirements such a laser engraver would necessitate.<p>Counterpoint: rule of cool.
"Can you tell the jury what you told investigators when you decided to use computerized directed energy weapons to target civllian infrastructure?"<p>"...rule of cool?"
You’ll probably burn your retinas with the backscatter
Defacement is not the point of graffiti. It's fundamentally visual, not fundamentally destructive.
Not drawing (yet), about to arrive, but I built a whole projected arcade system on the same vibe, but way before vibecoding… :)<p><a href="https://s-argame.com" rel="nofollow">https://s-argame.com</a>
This is really cool! I wonder if for the drip on neon you could make it start from the bottom of the line to make it a little smoother. And maybe you could try making it translucent for the marker so it matches the marker ink.
So cool! I can see its application in presentation. Does this support more than 1 laser btw?
very cool, I can imagine use-cases like a friends evening playing at home with the projector or even school doing didactic.<p>love the whole simplicity and the style too.
Consti, this could do well on IG and TikTok.<p>Love the take on AI
Looks cool!
Cool project
"Tanning invitation"<p>/Ob Real Genius
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