How To Make an INTERACTIVE HOLOGRAM! (Cheap Easy DIY Build)

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so today's project guys is something

that I've been thinking about for a

while so one big staple of sci-fi movies

movies in the future

are Holograms so projections of light

that appear to just like pop out of

something you guys you guys know exactly

what I'm talking about

if you guys know anything about me it's

that I think movies are very unfair why

do they get all the cool stuff you know

I want to do that I want to fly I want

to shoot lasers from my hands and

whatnot oh yeah that pretty much led to

all this currently it's impossible to

get like to stop without some sort of

physical object they've done some

primitive stuff like this people have

done like holographic effects where you

project stuff onto a clear screen so it

looks like it's not there Tupac you know

what I'm talking about kidding is

totally alive so I'm gonna try and show

you guys how you can make your own

holographic projector very simply and

very cheaply so we're gonna be

projecting an image on a fog screen that

normally you can't really see what the

light illuminates the little particles

and projects the image and if this ends

up going as planned I'll hopefully be

able to control this with my hand like

I'll be able to touch this mate mate

shift screen and interact with the

actual Holograms so let's hit the

hardware store and see what we can find

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so we have most of the pieces cut out

and the way I think this is gonna work

is we're gonna have two box fan on the

base ideally we would have used a tower

fan or something like that something

will blow air more like a channel which

would be better for the smoke screen but

the box fan it's all I had so I'm gonna

make doing it I don't thinking about it

I could use my backpack fan box fan will

be positioned something like that and

then on top of that we're gonna put two

of these foam pieces over the top oh I'm

gonna try and direct the air right out

the middle we'll cap off the ends with

some more foam and then on top of all of

that we're going to have these pieces

the chimney I guess but these pieces are

very important because in between these

pieces we're going to have a ton of

these straw and what these are going to

do is make sure the air comes out nice

and straight its rid of like laminar

flow that's what we're going for we

don't want the air to come out all

choppy because uh box fans they cut up

the air so we need these straws to help

straighten out the air

Oh what's up guys didn't see you there

house is going well glue the pieces

together add a little bit of tape paint

this or put like some vinyl over to make

it look better but yeah for now this is

what we're working with no need to take

these two pieces a bunch of these straws

and make a laminar flow nozzle feel real

smart Sam that word

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projector things set up let's see if it

works

now I can't believe I didn't think of

this sooner

instead of using straws another thing I

could use is corrugated plastic that

would save a ton of time for the gluing

be probably stronger see I went back to

the store and grab some of that so what

I think I'm going to do with this is

attach some of the corrugated plastic to

a channel I'll cut in this so this will

feed this smoke right out of the top of

this thing probably gonna take this part

off then on either side of the

corrugated plastic with the smoke more

corrugated plastic that will let the air

from the fan through so ideally we'll

have two streams of air with the smoke

in the middle and I think this will

force the smoke up and out and keep it

and more of like a call and make for a

better screen I don't know we'll see

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all right first test up these PVC pipe

through and the corrugated plastic

collar I just hold this smoke machine up

to the pipe eventually attach it with

like some pipe or something for now

let's see what happens whoa look at that

guys that's so cool so you can really

see it alright ready wow that's what we

like to see so now we need to put more

corrugated plastic on either side of

this so we can have the fan under there

blowing all the air up and creating a

smoke screen

oh yeah

publish it in three two one

there it is I don't know how well you

guys can see this but from my angle

here's mom seeing that's the smoke

screen alright one more time with the

lights off so as you can see it works a

little bit like you can see when the

laser shines it really illuminates when

it hits the fog but because I'm inside

all the fog just builds up in here and

you can't really distinguish with a

screen is so I'm gonna mount this fan on

fo real we're gonna take it outside to

test it out

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sorry guys getting PTSD from the fan

injury

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all right guys everything is set the

Machine obviously right here so lasers

projecting shapes you'll see but ideally

what supposed to happen the smoke comes

out of here and we can actually see the

shapes hovering in midair right about

here right about the thing so let's see

if the way then if this works well

enough we'll try a projector

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I think there's too much wind out here

so I'm gonna go take this on the porch

and try it again

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alright guys the lasers they were

definitely projecting on the screen that

could like wave my hand through them so

I rigged up a tiny little projector

attached to my Wii

yeah I'm using a Wii and I don't have a

cable to connect it to my computer yeah

that should be coming in soon though

we'll see if we can project this

projector out of that smoke screen maybe

even play a little Super Smash Bros

don't even challenge me to that game

guys like I'll destroy anyone let's test

it out I just flip the switch I don't

know if you guys can see but it's the

Wii Menu right here it is super blurry

though I'm not even gonna lie off windy

wind wind it's ruining it I currently

got a little better now we are on the

home screen right now

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now we're talking that's a TV you can

even see the wee icons haha the

resolution is horrible at best what see

what I'm getting at guys like you can

wave your hand right through it

guys can you tell what game that is I

know you can you can literally put my

hand right through this display guys so

lasers and projectors on the fog screen

those are cool at all but I want to be

able to interact at this screen so

here's what I've got going on

let the projector set out connected to

my laptop apologize for the light but

you can't really see the projector

without it so you know what you try and

do this but we also have connected with

this little device right here this

device is kind of like a Kinect

it's called leap motion it pretty much

will track my hands and allow me to

interact with the screen via hand

gestures as you can see it's coming on

the computer so if I put my hand in the

frame so I wave my hand around you can

see what it sees and then it overlays my

hand onto the screen it can pick up

blocks give got a block right there got

the block there we go we can throw it

with this setup because I'm in

front of the projector my hand is

literally being projected onto my hand

hopefully if we're interacting it from

the back you won't see you like this

weird three hand setup of cone on right

here

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help me obi-wan Kenobi

you owe me Oh help me obi-wan Kenobi

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you know know

was the close one guys

it's real close so I would call that a

success for a first try I was using a

pretty low quality projector so if you

have a brighter one it would only work

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you guys very much for watching I will

see you in the next video

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