Laser Stars
So, I've been looking at projectors and such for years. What I always REALLY wanted was a recreation of the night sky. Just stars on a black background. . .but that seems difficult. Any projectors that did that were very expensive, or the projector would leak light and make the whole room kind of 'grey' in addition to projecting the stars. Mostly, it was both. I just wanted stars in the dark.
I got a couple blisslight bulbs for fun. Green and blue (they used to sell blue ones) laser projectors that fit in standard lightbulb sockets and made a bunch of colored laser dots. They were kind of gridlike, you could easily see a pattern. When I had both bulbs on though, it made the grid much less obvious, even though they were different colors. So, I bought a couple more. Two blue and two green Blisslight bulbs looked pretty good. No gridlike pattern, but it didn't cover the entire ceiling in as dense a pattern as I wanted. I used them for awhile, and decided I would like a couple more blue bulbs. Whoops! They stopped selling them! I looked for a year, couldn't find one, not even on Ebay. Green ones, but no blue ones.
I finally broke down and decided to buy one of the Blisslight USB laser projectors in green. It worked pretty good - almost identical to the old bulb format, but in a smaller package. Now the stars were looking better. . .if I added a couple more, I could get great coverage and a dense star pattern. . .so I bought two more of the green USB laser projectors.
Fantastic! Now I had 2 blue Blissbulbs, 2 green Blissbulbs, and 3 green USB projectors! Pretty good density, looking great. . .except, boy, I really wish I had more blue. There was a lot of green, and I didn't have enough blue to mix it well. It was patchy. So, I went to Ebay.
I picked up a Bliss Light SPRIGHT MOTION Firefly Light Projector, in blue. They're used to light up outdoor displays/houses. They're discontinued as well, but someone must have bought up the entire remaining supply, they're selling for $34.99 and they appear to have a bunch. So now, I've got:
2 blue Blissbulbs
MAYBE it's overkill, but I love it.
I have a bad picture of it. The thing is, this picture makes it look like the ceiling's blue. It's not, it's dark, but the lasers are so bright in the dark that the camera makes the blue bleed everywhere. So you have to use your imagination a bit, just see the blue and green dots and know that everything is dark in-between.
It's kind of a Milky Way galaxy of green and blue stars.
The Spright Motion Firefly projector can make the stars move around, but I mostly have them static - unless I put on "Carpet Crawlers" by Genesis, then I make them crawl all around the ceiling among the other, static dots from the other laser projectors. :)