Five deadly sci-fi gadgets you can make at home

[Cain]

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It's 2009. Where are our jetpacks? And laser guns? It seems like the cool stuff of sci-fi movies is now the stuff of the billion-dollar military programs, and equally unavailable to us common folk. What the hell?

Well, if you're tired of waiting for this stuff to turn up on store shelves, it turns out a whole lot of these working sci-fi staples can be built on your living room floor. All it takes is some off-the-shelf parts, a little creativity and a complete disregard for your own safety.

[Herbertina Merrique V]

Too tired to try to communicate through anything else than emoticons, but:

 

 

[Cain]

[Richter]

Cute list 

No pulse jets, quarter shrinkers, or home brew arc welding rigs though

[Rumckle]

Hmm, I think I may have a spare DVD-Burner lying around the place 

[Soylent Green]

Hmm, I think I may have a spare DVD-Burner lying around the place 

I wonder what would happen if you used a blu ray diode.

[Rumckle]

I wonder what would happen if you used a blu ray diode.

For the amount of money you spent on a blue ray player you'd be better off just buying a high powered laser pointer, unless of course you can just get the diode through a spare parts company.

[Golden Applesauce]

I wonder what would happen if you used a blu ray diode.

it looks 100x more fucking awesome.

although, you 'probly wanna save that for making a lightsabre.

turns out if you use a cdr drive, the beam is invisible. oh yeah. invisible death ray.

Laser beams are inherently invisible, just like you can't see the actual beam of a flashlight unless you're shining it through fog or smoke.

[Richter]

Light in general isn't so much invisible, more like it's going by too fast to be seen.  Like your fog / smoke example, we only see what gets reflected off objects and into our eyes.

[Triple Zero]

I wonder what would happen if you used a blu ray diode.

For the amount of money you spent on a blue ray player you'd be better off just buying a high powered laser pointer, unless of course you can just get the diode through a spare parts company.

hey, don't make light of blue ray

[Rumckle]

I pulled the Laser diode out of my old laptops DVD drive, but couldn't get it to produce any visible light 

[Cainad (dec.)]

I wonder what would happen if you used a blu ray diode.

For the amount of money you spent on a blue ray player you'd be better off just buying a high powered laser pointer, unless of course you can just get the diode through a spare parts company.

hey, don't make light of blue ray

I'm not sure we're communicating on the same wavelength here.

[Rumckle]

I wonder what would happen if you used a blu ray diode.

For the amount of money you spent on a blue ray player you'd be better off just buying a high powered laser pointer, unless of course you can just get the diode through a spare parts company.

hey, don't make light of blue ray

I'm not sure we're communicating on the same wavelength here.

Damn, I should probably explain my ideas better, because this seems to happen with great frequency.

[Richter]

I wonder what would happen if you used a blu ray diode.

For the amount of money you spent on a blue ray player you'd be better off just buying a high powered laser pointer, unless of course you can just get the diode through a spare parts company.

hey, don't make light of blue ray

I'm not sure we're communicating on the same wavelength here.

Damn, I should probably explain my ideas better, because this seems to happen with great frequency.

I can azure you it's a common problem.

[Bruno]

I think it's more of a coherency problem.