Larson Scanner
From Evil Mad Scientist Wiki
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:
- PDF Version (3.8 MB PDF) (Trouble Viewing? Please click here.)
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:
- An analog version of the scanning red light circuit, at Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories
- The analog circuit above was refined and published in Make Magazine, the schematic for which is here.
- MiniPOV Cylon using the Adafruit MiniPov.
- An article on linking several Larson Scanners together is here.
Places for questions, answers, and sharing experiences:
- Larson Scanner Forum at Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories
- Evil Mad Science Auxiliary Flickr Group where you can share photos of your Larson Scanners
