photoplotter

[Jon Elson]

On 08/31/2015 07:51 AM, Mouse wrote:
>> [...] then in 1996 I built a laser photoplotter that cranks out
>> 1000x1000 DPI images on red-sensitive film at 0.6 inches/minute.
> I'd be very interested in anything you care to share about its design
> and building....
>
>
Here's my web page on it:
http://pico-systems.com/photoplot.html

I built this in 1996, as soon as red laser diodes became 
available. (I'd been trying to make it work with LEDs 
before, but the optics got difficult.)  I just converted it 
over recently to run off a Beagle Bone computer.

Jon