Laser Glow Board

by Tetranitrate in Circuits > Lasers

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Laser Glow Board

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Laser glow board
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Why wax poetic:

It's a glow in the dark board. You can draw on it with lasers.

It is like a remote self-erasing Etch A Sketch.

Parts

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Build

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Cut the tape into strips. Put the strips on a board or wall or anything; it doesn't really matter.

Draw

Fast fade
Fading
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Glow smile
Glow spiral

For tight clean lines hold the laser against the board and draw on it like you would with a pen. It can also be drawn on from across the room, but the lines are all squiggly.

The second video shows a prototype, where I used two different brands of glow tape with two different half-lives. This is what causes the stripe pattern.