Laser Fingers (2013)

Research into real-time, programmatic laser control.

The people in these videos are wearing high density safety goggles.
Do not play with lasers unless you know what you’re doing!

Source code

Open-source C++/openFrameworks addons for galvanometer based laser projector control (ILDA).

Device agnostic ILDA functionality – github.com/memo/ofxilda

Communications with Etherdream DAC (requires ofxIlda) – github.com/memo/ofxEtherdream

Released under the MIT License

Acknowledgements

Thanks to Golan Levin for recommending the Etherdream DAC, and Daito Manabe and Yusuke Tomoto for sharing their code to connect to the Etherdream.

And of course thanks to Jacob Potter for making the Etherdream and releasing its firmware and drivers as opensource.
ether-dream.com
github.com/j4cbo/j4cDAC

Hand control

Using a Leap Motion to track fingers and control organic blobs of laser (using ofxLeapMotion by Theo Watson).

Bubble tracking

Using a high-speed infrared camera to track bubbles and other movement, and project lasers back onto the objects.

Hello, World!

First test of controlling an ILDA laser projector directly from code.

Reducible Complexity (2013)
Laser Forest (2013)