Laser Sound Visualizations Are Not Hard To Make

You might think that visualizing music with lasers would be a complicated and difficult affair. In fact, it’s remarkably simple if you want it to be, and At heart, what you’re trying to do is make a laser trace out waveforms of the music you’re listening to, right? So you just need a way to move the laser’s beam along with the sound waves from whatever you’re listening to. You might be thinking about putting a laser on the head of a servo-operated platform fed movement instructions from a digital music file, but you’d be way over-complicating things.

You already have something that moves with the music you play — a speaker! [byte_thrasher’s] concept is simple. Get a Bluetooth speaker, and stick it in a bowl. Cover the bowl with a flexible membrane, like plastic wrap.



Stick a small piece of mirror on the plastic. When you play music with the speaker, the mirror will vibrate and move in turn. All you then have to do is aim a laser in a direction such that it bounces off the mirror and projects on to a surface.

Then, the laser will dance with your tunes, and it’ll probably look pretty cool! . Just be careful and keep your power levels safe and your beams ..