Bourne Identity Bank Account Implant?

[JForce]

There are plenty of excellent threads going over in amazing detail the contents of the Red Bag from The Bourne Identity, with so many people having recreated their own.

However in my searching I haven't come across anyone who's replicated the implant that holds the bank account number, projected out from the end of it. Now it's likely of course that it's just my poor search-fu that has prevented me from finding anyone who's either researched or made their own, but I've searched both in here and google on every variant of "bourne bank account laser/led/ir/implant/yaddayaddayadda" I can think of, and I the only thing I've learned is that the Red Bag stuff is an awesome obsession, and all anyone cares about

So, any advice/pointers/directions to if there's any existing stuff on this one? If not then I shall begin and see where I end up as far as recreating one goes.

 

[justy]

It might be possible to make a tiny laser-cut gobo disk to go in front of a laser pointer or light, with a couple of lenses to focus it could work? The trick is finding a small enough light source and a way to focus it...

 

[The Kaiser]

It might be possible to make a tiny laser-cut gobo disk to go in front of a laser pointer or light, with a couple of lenses to focus it could work? The trick is finding a small enough light source and a way to focus it...

I think laser cutting the gobo might not be practical due to the incredible small form factor (maybe 5mm/.2"or so in diameter?) . I am sure there are fancy and expensive lasers that have the capability, but that may not be commonly available (to be fair, my experience is based on working with only a few consumer-level laser cutters (GF, Beambox, etc.), so I may be under-informed).

I think I would try to make the gobo with some sort of photolithography approach, but that would still be a challenge. On the positive side, I don't think you would need to worry too much about focusing the light as the throw could be changed simply by moving the capsule closer to or farther from the projection surface.

As a semi-related side note, the project made me think of the "IEE One-Plane" projection display - its a display technology from the early 60's that used an array of miniature gobos to project different numbers/characters. It is a tech decades before my time, but I have seen a few videos about on YT about them. I think Franlab has a full break down of one that was pretty awesome and may provide some inspiration.

 

[justy]

Good point, I don't have any experience with lasers yet unfortunately. Someday.... I imagine it wouldn't be too hard to make a non functioning one, ie a small metal capsule with an LED and small battery. I have a long way to go with my metalworking skills before that happens hah.

 

[ZBM2Ory]

I think laser cutting the gobo might not be practical due to the incredible small form factor (maybe 5mm/.2"or so in diameter?) . I am sure there are fancy and expensive lasers that have the capability, but that may not be commonly available (to be fair, my experience is based on working with only a few consumer-level laser cutters (GF, Beambox, etc.), so I may be under-informed).

I think I would try to make the gobo with some sort of photolithography approach, but that would still be a challenge. On the positive side, I don't think you would need to worry too much about focusing the light as the throw could be changed simply by moving the capsule closer to or farther from the projection surface.

As a semi-related side note, the project made me think of the "IEE One-Plane" projection display - its a display technology from the early 60's that used an array of miniature gobos to project different numbers/characters. It is a tech decades before my time, but I have seen a few videos about on YT about them. I think Franlab has a full break down of one that was pretty awesome and may provide some inspiration.

There may be a cheaper and easier solution to your problem... Seeing as the projected image is just text... what Id reccomend is utilizing a Do-It-Yourself kind of photolithography that Kaiser mentioned, but doesnt use lasers.

If you have access to a film camera... what you can do is print black text onto a white background and take a photo of it (you can do multiple sizes of text on one photo, or just move further and further away to get the text smaller). What will happen is the film negative will develop and have the text as white(clear) while the white background shows up as dark/black. Find the correct size text on the negative to fit for your light source, place the negative in front of the light source, and and a lens.

Seeing how the prop is from a spy movie, and the method above is how spy's used to use microdots to hide information in the past... I think this could be a fitting solution.

 

[Kris Abel]

It’s an awesome prop replica idea and really THE Bourne item to have. Like you, I’m surprised it hasn’t been tackled elsewhere.

 

[The Kaiser]

There may be a cheaper and easier solution to your problem... Seeing as the projected image is just text... what Id reccomend is utilizing a Do-It-Yourself kind of photolithography that Kaiser mentioned, but doesnt use lasers.

If you have access to a film camera... what you can do is print black text onto a white background and take a photo of it (you can do multiple sizes of text on one photo, or just move further and further away to get the text smaller). What will happen is the film negative will develop and have the text as white(clear) while the white background shows up as dark/black. Find the correct size text on the negative to fit for your light source, place the negative in front of the light source, and and a lens.

Seeing how the prop is from a spy movie, and the method above is how spy's used to use microdots to hide information in the past... I think this could be a fitting solution.

I like where ZBM2Ory is going with the film negatives. I think that could be a good approach and agree that it is more authentically "spy".

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