I'd like to share my first Arduino project with you. The aim is to create a small laser staging box with a green 20mw laser producing several shapes with mirrors. The main mirror glued on a servo is redirecting the laser beam to the target mirrors producing the shapes. The delay between the switch from one shape to the other is controllable by a poti.
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My plan is to build a lasershow box too,but using a true x-y control with servos...
Ciao. I wish you a good start doing your laser box!
But pay attention, galvos are the right stuff to produce what you want. Do not use servos. Check out Youtube for several videos how people build x-y axis controlled laser shapes, images or even scrolling text. Good luck
Still waiting for the stepper and the dc motor to continue the work.
Additionally I am thinking about driving the DC motor through a PWN and transistor to regurlate the speed.
To calibrate the stepper mirror at startup I am thinking about an attached phototransistor on the side.