«

LaserShark and OpenLase on GitHub

Jeffrey Nelson just let me know about an awesome project that he put together: LaserShark! Instead of using OpenLase with the hacky sound card output, he put together a proper open DAC board based around an LPC1343 Cortex-M3 microcontroller. I haven’t had a chance to see it in action yet, but considering that the systems I’ve seen so far either use proprietary DACs (that tend to suck) or sound card DACs (with all their problems), I think this is easily the best DAC solution for using OpenLase today.

He also suggested, quite rightly, that moving OpenLase to GitHub will make it easier for others to contribute and that the wiki feature should help put together some reasonable documentation. Thus, I’ve copied the git repo over to GitHub. I haven’t started populating the documentation yet (and knowing my rather unpredictable schedule and project interest I have no idea when I’ll get around to doing so), but if you want to help out, head over to the wiki! Of course, I’ll also gladly take pull requests from anyone hacking on the code :)

This entry was posted on Friday, November 16th, 2012 at 4:45 am and is filed under Electronics. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed.

5 Responses to “LaserShark and OpenLase on GitHub”

  1. meeble Says:
    February 15th, 2013 at 7:44 pm

    Hi Hector,

    I keep getting this error when trying to compile openlase on OSX:

    CMake Error at libol/CMakeLists.txt:20 (check_function_exists):
    Unknown CMake command “check_function_exists”.

    All of the dependencies are found, but I’m not sure what this means!

    Thanks

  2. meeble Says:
    February 15th, 2013 at 8:12 pm

    I commented out the “check_function_exists” lines, which got me to the next step, but when I run “make”, I am getting this fatal error:

    /Users/devin/Desktop/openlase/libol/libol.c:21:10: fatal error: ‘jack/jack.h’ file not found

    Has anyone gotten this to compile on OSX successfully? If so, please post how you did it! Thanks.

  3. SteveC Says:
    February 16th, 2013 at 5:18 pm

    My game, Word War vi running with a full color RGB openlase setup.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cek1QaNc0Kk

    game source is here: https://github.com/smcameron/wordwarvi on the open-lase branch.

    Also, lunar lander openlase game (requires RGB color and xbox 360 controller):
    https://github.com/smcameron/laser-lander (you’re supposed to find and land on the little rainbow colored pads.)

    – steve

  4. cars Says:
    May 17th, 2013 at 5:19 am

    A little bit of knowledge goes a long way in all situations in
    life. Buying a car is no different! That means you need
    to read advice from experts, as detailed below, to ensure that
    when you shop for that car, you really know what you’re doing and how to get the best deal.

  5. phlebotomy schools in az Says:
    May 17th, 2013 at 3:59 pm

    Hello, this weekend is nice designed for me, since this occasion i am reading this fantastic informative paragraph here at my residence.

Leave a Reply