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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.
Too tired to try to communicate through anything else than emoticons, but:
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Cute list :)
No pulse jets, quarter shrinkers, or home brew arc welding rigs though
Hmm, I think I may have a spare DVD-Burner lying around the place :evil:
Quote from: Rumwolf on July 09, 2009, 03:24:38 PM
Hmm, I think I may have a spare DVD-Burner lying around the place :evil:
I wonder what would happen if you used a blu ray diode.
Quote from: Skieth on July 11, 2009, 10:26:08 PM
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.
Quote from: Broken AI on July 12, 2009, 12:29:56 AM
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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.
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.
Quote from: Rumwolf on July 12, 2009, 02:45:25 AM
Quote from: Skieth on July 11, 2009, 10:26:08 PM
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 pulled the Laser diode out of my old laptops DVD drive, but couldn't get it to produce any visible light :argh!:
Quote from: Triple Zero on July 15, 2009, 06:24:31 PM
Quote from: Rumwolf on July 12, 2009, 02:45:25 AM
Quote from: Skieth on July 11, 2009, 10:26:08 PM
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.
Quote from: julia oakmoon on July 19, 2009, 05:43:48 PM
Quote from: Triple Zero on July 15, 2009, 06:24:31 PM
Quote from: Rumwolf on July 12, 2009, 02:45:25 AM
Quote from: Skieth on July 11, 2009, 10:26:08 PM
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.
Quote from: Rumwolf on July 23, 2009, 09:57:40 AM
Quote from: julia oakmoon on July 19, 2009, 05:43:48 PM
Quote from: Triple Zero on July 15, 2009, 06:24:31 PM
Quote from: Rumwolf on July 12, 2009, 02:45:25 AM
Quote from: Skieth on July 11, 2009, 10:26:08 PM
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.
I think it's more of a coherency problem.
Can we please focus on the original topic?
What a bright idea!
I sense that this discussion is about to become very polarizing.
(http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_I2uQkGxIykM/Sb89u3V23hI/AAAAAAAADN0/PNfPrTqQVps/s400/funny-pictures-cat-threatens-your-laser-pointer.jpg)
...I suck at puns.
Quote from: julia oakmoon on July 24, 2009, 02:52:03 PM
I sense that this discussion is about to become very polarizing.
what LED you to that conclusion?
Quote from: Triple Zero on July 24, 2009, 05:13:30 PM
Quote from: julia oakmoon on July 24, 2009, 02:52:03 PM
I sense that this discussion is about to become very polarizing.
what LED you to that conclusion?
I think I just had a stimulated emission.
This thread is making my day. Not only was the article enlightening, but these puns are brilliant as well.