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Posted by TheChuckster on Dec-19-2006 22:47:

Cheap personal light show

I'm looking for a cheap personal light show that looks hypnotic, trippy, and awesome. It can be anything that illuminates -- a disco ball, a lava lamp, an LED strobe light. By cheap, I mean $200 or less. It's a bonus if lasers or LEDs are involved, if it projects onto a wall, if it responds to music, and if it looks sweet.

I found two things so far:

Laserpod $99.99
http://www.thinkgeek.com/homeoffice/lights/7226/
http://www.laserpod.com.au/gallery.html -- Wow!

Mathmos Space Projector $89.99
http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/lights/600c/

Any more suggestions? I'm sure everyone here knows what's good for this kind of lighting stuff...

Posted by Marc Summers on Dec-19-2006 22:50:

FALSE ADVERTISING!

I WANT LIGHTSHOW!

Posted by jdat on Dec-20-2006 00:38:

the cheapest light installation I did had an extra zero to the bill

you may want to take a look at light stuff on www.pssl.com and www.musiciansfriend.com

Posted by TheChuckster on Dec-20-2006 01:38:

ProSound seems like it has some awesome equipment, but that might be a little too professional for me. I was looking at the Chauvet Mushroom DJ Effects Light, but I probably wouldn't be able to find a good spot to mount it. The $60 price tag is a steal, though. It would probably be better with a controller, and I'm sure I'd need to buy some extra stuff like spare bulbs and mounting hardware. I don't think it would be worth it for a cheap light show in my room.

Right now I'm leaning towards the Laser Pod.

Posted by all-nite-freak on Dec-20-2006 01:42:

tape a few flashlights and laser pointers to an epileptic homeless guy with parkinsons in exchange for a bottle of wild turkey.Bargain

Posted by jdat on Dec-20-2006 01:46:

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Originally posted by TheChuckster
ProSound seems like it has some awesome equipment, but that might be a little too professional for me. I was looking at the Chauvet Mushroom DJ Effects Light, but I probably wouldn't be able to find a good spot to mount it. The $60 price tag is a steal, though. It would probably be better with a controller, and I'm sure I'd need to buy some extra stuff like spare bulbs and mounting hardware. I don't think it would be worth it for a cheap light show in my room.

Right now I'm leaning towards the Laser Pod.

a 60$ unit in most cases won't even be usable with a controller.

Take a look on ebay

perhaps here too(I realize this isn't directly in line with your request):
http://www.diylive.net/index.php/projects/
http://www.instructables.com/
http://ikeahacker.blogspot.com/

Posted by eROs.au on Dec-20-2006 01:46:

http://www.tranceaddict.com/forums/...d=&pagenumber=1

Posted by TheChuckster on Dec-20-2006 01:47:

Can't beat that!

Well, I found schematics for a homemade light controller. I'm thinking I could probably cook up a software beat detection engine as a Winamp plugin and interface it with the lighting hardware using the serial port. That would be nifty and give me something productive to do.

http://instruct1.cit.cornell.edu/co...bsite/intro.htm

Posted by dallastar on Dec-20-2006 01:48:

there is this light show called the Cavalde of lights that goes on every day in December at Nathan Phillips Square - similair to that ice rink in NYC. they have projections and light shows and ever Saturday until Christmas they have firework shows, and I must say they are super fantastic!
here's a pic I took from my camera over the weekend

then us looking at the lights

Posted by Yan on Dec-20-2006 02:12:

Just to let you know, Laserpod is fucking awesome.

I've had one for about a year now and I still love simply lying on my bed, listening to music and staring up at the ceiling for hours on end.

Posted by denys envy on Dec-20-2006 02:48:

room rave. flicker the lightswitch real fast.

Posted by KilldaDJ on Dec-20-2006 02:56:

ive wanted a laserpod for such a long time now...