Larson Scanner

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This page is a central site for documentation of the Larson Scanner kit.


Main details about the Larson Scanner kit:

  • Announcement article at Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories
  • Kit page at evilmadscience.com
  • The Larson Scanner is named after Glen A. Larson, who produced the Battlestar Galactica and Knight Rider series, and is responsible for introducing scanning red light effects to the sci-fi TV viewing population of the 1970s and 80s.


Assembly instructions:


Open Source Hardware documentation for the Larson Scanner:

  • Source code is available at Google Code.
  • Electrical schematics are here. (33 kB .pdf file)
  • The circuit board design is in gEDA, and you can download the design files here. (74 kB .pcb file)
  • For home PCB etching, the PCB layout, showing the individual circuit board layers broken out individually with crop marks, is also available as a .pdf here. (124 kB .pdf file)


More red scanning light projects:


Places for questions, answers, and sharing experiences: