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Re: Show HN: Laser Graffiti

#51

https://graffitiresearchlab.com/blog/projects/laser-tag/#vid... everything old is new again, and toys will be toys

If you want something a bit more "permament" there's the LaserPecker portal 10W engraver.

https://us.laserpecker.net/products/laserpecker-lp4-portable...

Re: Show HN: Laser Graffiti

#52

While this is interesting, what I really wanted to see was more 'graffiti' and less 'laser'. Graffiti, fundamentally, is a defacement of public property as a form of artistic self expression. To that end, why not combine this with a laser engraver instead of a laser pointer ? Imagine hooking this up and then literally carving your graffiti into the side of a brick building. Or burning it into the paint on a metal con…

WARNING: DO NOT LOOK INTO LASER WITH REMAINING EYE

Arr: You are not the pi-rated captain of me..

Re: Show HN: Laser Graffiti

#53

While this is interesting, what I really wanted to see was more 'graffiti' and less 'laser'. Graffiti, fundamentally, is a defacement of public property as a form of artistic self expression. To that end, why not combine this with a laser engraver instead of a laser pointer ? Imagine hooking this up and then literally carving your graffiti into the side of a brick building. Or burning it into the paint on a metal con…

Defacement is not the point of graffiti. It's fundamentally visual, not fundamentally destructive.

Seriously? 99% is some stupid tag.. no art at all.. just the equivalent of a dog lifting his leg in paint..

Re: Show HN: Laser Graffiti

#57

While this is interesting, what I really wanted to see was more 'graffiti' and less 'laser'. Graffiti, fundamentally, is a defacement of public property as a form of artistic self expression. To that end, why not combine this with a laser engraver instead of a laser pointer ? Imagine hooking this up and then literally carving your graffiti into the side of a brick building. Or burning it into the paint on a metal con…

> Graffiti, fundamentally, is a defacement of public property as a form of artistic self expression.

The "Musée de la mémoire des murs" (museum of walls' memories), previously named "Musée des Grafittis historiques" sees grafittis much beyond your strict definition. https://www.verneuil-en-halatte.fr/musee-de-la-memoire-des-m...

I visited it long ago, but I remember drawings by prisoners on cells walls. Definitely not public property (or not visible by a wide public from public places).

Re: Show HN: Laser Graffiti

#59

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Defacement is not the point of graffiti. It's fundamentally visual, not fundamentally destructive.

Ask the people who have to clean it off.

they have no choice, and i don't care what their bosses think.

Re: Show HN: Laser Graffiti

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Hi HN and สวัสดีครับ! I remember seeing this the first time in Vienna by a friend of mine, Michi who came back from NYC and I believe he learned about it at the local hacker space at the time: NYC resistor. I knew Michi through the Metalab, our hacker space in Vienna. Originally the idea seems to have been from the Graffiti Research Lab, which is also what I've linked to on my page and in the repo's Readme. I think t…

The original, or at least the first one that was released, was written in processing. I have the sourcecode around somewhere, doubt it will still compile though.
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