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.
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.
Dec-20-2006 01:38
all-nite-freak
Registered: Oct 2005
Location: Moved from death Row to TA Paris Hillton Prison
tape a few flashlights and laser pointers to an epileptic homeless guy with parkinsons in exchange for a bottle of wild turkey.Bargain
Dec-20-2006 01:42
jdat
Jay Van Dat
Registered: Oct 2001
Location: I dont even know
quote:
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.
Originally posted by pkcRAISTLIN
dont argue with the yanks nutter, they know best!
Dec-20-2006 01:46
TheChuckster
Junior tranceaddict
Registered: Sep 2004
Location: Pittsburgh, PA
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.
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
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Dec-20-2006 01:48
Yan
fauxhawk
Registered: Jul 2003
Location: Wano
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.
Dec-20-2006 02:12
denys envy
no scratch, no snatch...
Registered: Mar 2004
Location: falLAcy, CA
room rave. flicker the lightswitch real fast.
Dec-20-2006 02:48
KilldaDJ
birth.school.trance.death
Registered: Sep 2001
Location: tranceaddict wants to know your location
