DIY hallucinogenic goggles

For those of you with decent tech skills and little cash, this guide describes how to build a functional set of mind-machine strobe glasses from parts. Also contains links to great technical resources on flicker and ganzfeld hallucinations.

This post will describe how to construct a pair of goggles which can be used to induce geometric visual hallucinations via strobe light patterns. This tutorial should be accessible to anyone familiar with Arduino hacking, and I do not go into details of the electronics design. The effects are quite remarkable. These goggles can be constructed for 25 to 50 dollars, depending on how good you are at scavenging parts. I believe this design to be superior to some similar designs seen on the internet, and very much cheaper than this commercial equivalent ($649).

Update : For those of you who noticed that this appears to be a simple combination of the trip glasses and the DIY ganzfeld hallucination method, you are absolutely correct. I saw both of these hacks, and wanted to combine them, and also support full color. The result is a full color ganzfeld+flicker hallucination apparatus.

[Thanks Mason!]