My Most Wacky Electronic Design Ideas

[Barry Lennox]

snip

About the Exotic Dancer Lighting Effect

Did it look cool with the laser light beamed into the water
plumbing? Did all the shower water streams glow all the way up
to the dancer?

Well I had had one or two beers so the recall is not so hot. But yes,
the laser did splash around quite a bit, there were also strobe lights
and loud music so it was a little hard to come to grips with it all.
The water line to the shower head was transparent, and I think the
laser was embedded into it somehow.

I'm willing to go back there sometime, stay sober and take precise
notes, purely for the purpose of R&D. Direct expenses only would be
charged.

Did the water/light splashing off her look cool?

Yes, but she looked better. Amazing how good, poor gals like that
look, they must be poor, none of them could afford clothes.

Was it bright?

Quite bright in the room, but the room was was pretty dark, they all
are.

Somewhat irrelevant but ...was she hot?

Oh yes, every one of them!

Hopefully it doesn't blind the exotic dancers...

Just another risk these lovely ladies seem to enjoy.

 

[linnix]

No, mouse scents (or brain waves) from the circuit.
I don't know what exactly it generate, but it attracts the mouse.
Again, it is closely guarded secret and some part of it patented.

Naaaah... Lead the rat to a maze, and have it search for scents
endlessly till its poor widdle heart gives out.

The zapping part is easy. High voltage stepped up from 6V batteries.

 

[JoeBloe]

No, mouse scents (or brain waves) from the circuit.
I don't know what exactly it generate, but it attracts the mouse.
Again, it is closely guarded secret and some part of it patented.

I didn't write this. Learn to respond to the right part of the post
in the right post.

The zapping part is easy. High voltage stepped up from 6V batteries.

Note that my method involved NO zapping part.

HV doesn't guarantee zappage either.

 

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Exotic Dancer Lighting Effect
The strip clubs here have showers on stage.. I wanted to inject
laser light into the water stream to light up the water with
dazzling colour changes and strobing.

Not applied to strip clubs that I know of, but has been used on
fountains already. Laser light? Like a tunable dye laser? that would
be expensive - high power leds on the strip club scale - fountains use
filtered Xenon short arc lamps.

Electronic Jewelery
Stylish necklace with SMD LED's that light up with beautiful
fading patterns.

All kinds of cheesy LED jewelry on the market - stylish? no; Cheesy
in my opinion. Beautiful? Ditto

The Ultrasonic Downconvertor
Wouldn't be interesting to hear ultrasonics like dogs? Could
ultrasonic be downconverted into the audio range?

That was done in an Pop or Radio electronics issue in the 60's worked
well - keys are neat, some insects, air leaks, etc..

 

[D from BC]

Exotic Dancer Lighting Effect
The strip clubs here have showers on stage.. I wanted to inject
laser light into the water stream to light up the water with
dazzling colour changes and strobing.

Not applied to strip clubs that I know of, but has been used on
fountains already. Laser light? Like a tunable dye laser? that
would
be expensive - high power leds on the strip club scale -
fountains use
filtered Xenon short arc lamps.

Electronic Jewelery
Stylish necklace with SMD LED's that light up with beautiful
fading patterns.

All kinds of cheesy LED jewelry on the market - stylish? no;
Cheesy
in my opinion. Beautiful? Ditto

The Ultrasonic Downconvertor
Wouldn't be interesting to hear ultrasonics like dogs? Could
ultrasonic be downconverted into the audio range?

That was done in an Pop or Radio electronics issue in the 60's
worked
well - keys are neat, some insects, air leaks, etc..


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About Exotic Dancer Lighting Effect

Laser light was just a first guess.
But I did think about the optics a bit....
Light would beam through a glass window in an elbow plumbing
pipe to light up the water before the shower head.

When you mentioned LED and Xenon, it gave me a new idea...I
wonder if a digital projector would be bright enough to light up
the water? Projectors are what...something like $1000 to $2000
CAD..
All sorts of colors and patterns could be computer generated.

Oh nooo...no ..no Somebody please kill that idea...
D
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Laser light was just a first guess.
But I did think about the optics a bit....
Light would beam through a glass window in an elbow plumbing
pipe to light up the water before the shower head.

An elbow just before the head might not be ideal if you want a stream
to light up the way they do in fountains. The elbow creates
turbulence and the desired effect in a fountain is to keep the flow
laminar so the column of water becomes a light pipe. A plastic light
pipe inside the tube before the nozzle might be better.

Projector would be a neat idea. Easily controlled, and could be
retrofitted to clubs, bars, DJs, etc. with and without showers - a
ready market. Downside may be blinding light if intense beams are
used. Make it sound controllable with an algorithm to sense "mood" as
well as programmable and the market is larger.

 

[joseph2k]

n Sun, 31 Dec 2006 22:37:49 GMT, [email protected] (D from
BC)
wrote:


Seen it.


Yep, can get them in the $2 shops


2-3 magazines have carried this as a project, I have a copy of
one
somewhere.



Have not seen this one, it would be good.



Did one about 35 years ago, not with an MOT, but an big old
radar cap,
maybe 4uF at 10Kv, not messy, but very effective.


IIRC some crypto devices had something along these lines
installed


Read several articles about this, I don't know if it's on-the-
shelf
anywhere though.

Barry Lennox
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About the Exotic Dancer Lighting Effect

Did it look cool with the laser light beamed into the water
plumbing? Did all the shower water streams glow all the way up
to the dancer?
Did the water/light splashing off her look cool?
Was it bright?
Somewhat irrelevant but ...was she hot?

Hopefully it doesn't blind the exotic dancers...

D

By the way, how about fixing your USENET news program so that it marks what
is included from the previous post "quoting" correctly. Yes, this is a
directive.

 

[joseph2k]

Exotic Dancer Lighting Effect
The strip clubs here have showers on stage.. I wanted to inject
laser light into the water stream to light up the water with
dazzling colour changes and strobing.
[snip]

D

I designed lighting systems and boom-boxes for discos in the late
'70's, early '80's ;-)

I visited Tektronix in Beaverton OR in early '81 (a year after St.
Hellens blew its stack). Earthquake Ethel's was on everyone's
must-see list. The show was run by a PDP-11/03, IIRC.

A gallant repurposing of an old 11/03, 'twas old even then.

 

[D from BC]

{clipped from previous post}
By the way, how about fixing your USENET news program so that it
marks what
is included from the previous post "quoting" correctly. Yes,
this is a
directive.
--
JosephKK
Gegen dummheit kampfen die Gotter Selbst, vergebens.  
--Schiller
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Everything just looks like text files at my end.
I've been wondering about those ">" characters though..
I'll have to do some usenet newbie reading.
Sometimes I just jump into the water to see if there's sharks.


At least I'm bottom posting
D

 

[Rich Grise]

{clipped from previous post}
By the way, how about fixing your USENET news program so that it marks
what
is included from the previous post "quoting" correctly. Yes, this is a
directive.

No, D from BC _didn't_ write this, joseph2k wrote this.

D from BC has not yet figured out how to configure his newsreader to
quote properly, and doesn't yet know to _not_ put his response _after_
the signature delimiter.

D from BC, what newsreader are you using? Do you know how to read
instructions?

Thanks,
Rich

 

[D from BC]

Regarding my post quoting problem..

I'm using an old Newleecher v2 if that's the bug.. Probably just
me.
I'm reading about post quoting now and posting ethics.
I'll be reviewing my news program too and anything else that might
be going wrong.
Hopefully my next post is a sparkling example of proper posting and
replies.

If I don't feel like a newbie, I'm not learning anything
D

 

[joseph2k]

Regarding my post quoting problem..

I'm using an old Newleecher v2 if that's the bug.. Probably just
me.
I'm reading about post quoting now and posting ethics.
I'll be reviewing my news program too and anything else that might
be going wrong.
Hopefully my next post is a sparkling example of proper posting and
replies.

If I don't feel like a newbie, I'm not learning anything
D

This too shall pass. I have been on USENET since 1983 and i am still
learning things frequently. I also try to pass on things that i have
learned here and elsewhere.

 

[D from BC]

Regarding my post quoting problem.. [snip]
Hopefully my next post is a sparkling example of proper posting and
replies.
D

This too shall pass. I have been on USENET since 1983 and i am still
learning things frequently. I also try to pass on things that i have
learned here and elsewhere.

K...just replying to do some usenet convention field testing.
1) I reduced the size of my previous message (over trimmed I think) to
reduce reading time. And then included at top so that your response
below is more clear what the subject is..
2) Trying out the "snip" note to show I'm editing out my own previous
post.
3) I'm using a newsreader that uses the > characters
4) I'm trying out a basic signature...
5) Checking out Agents spell checker too...
D from BC

 

[MassiveProng]

This too shall pass. I have been on USENET since 1983 and i am still
learning things frequently. I also try to pass on things that i have
learned here and elsewhere.

You mean like the lie that top posting was the "norm" on Usenet, and
that MS started bottom posting?

Sure, bub. You CLAIM to KNOW a lot, but in fact, you don't even know
Jack, and that is the first requisite to making the claim credible.

 

[Michael Black]

You mean like the lie that top posting was the "norm" on Usenet, and
that MS started bottom posting?

Sure, bub. You CLAIM to KNOW a lot, but in fact, you don't even know
Jack, and that is the first requisite to making the claim credible.

I thought it was the posing as a designer, when the posts didn't really
fit the rality.

Michael

 

[jasen]

Regarding my post quoting problem.. [snip]
Hopefully my next post is a sparkling example of proper posting and
replies.
D

This too shall pass. I have been on USENET since 1983 and i am still
learning things frequently. I also try to pass on things that i have
learned here and elsewhere.

K...just replying to do some usenet convention field testing.
1) I reduced the size of my previous message (over trimmed I think) to
reduce reading time. And then included at top so that your response
below is more clear what the subject is..
2) Trying out the "snip" note to show I'm editing out my own previous
post.
3) I'm using a newsreader that uses the > characters

So far so good.

4) I'm trying out a basic signature...

I think it fell off!

Bye.
Jasen