Hello There!!!

Hey, new member here, I am from Texas, US, and I have been lurking on the forums for a few days. I had created an account but the e-mail messed up somehow and the account wasn't functional. So I finally decided to try another e-mail host and it worked.

Anyway, I just got back into lasers after looking at info on some ferrofluid(sweet shit, youtube it) dropped some laser videos into the suggested videos bar on the side. At around 8th grade I was hooked on lasers and utterly obsessed and had countless drawings of ideas for things that could harness the power in lasers for something other than pointing. Fell off of them upon entering highschool because I wanted to have a life and because at that time there wasn't near as much technological advancement as there is now.

Back to the present: After doing a LOT of searching, I finally ordered two lasers(below) from rayfoss.com. Im saving up for a car, so I didn't have as much to throw around as what sites like dragonlasers were asking, so rayfoss looked like the best bet for a combination of affordability and quality.

As all the reviews on this site have said, Faona was great at communicating in a timely manner and my shipment has been ordered. Here are the lasers:

50mW Green Waterproof
200mW Red Waterproof

I chose the above lasers because I really want a burning laser, the red, and a stargazing/friggin awesome looking beam/burn slightly, the green. I cannot WAIT to receive my lasers! Anyone got any comments or suggestions as to what I should do first with them? PS-totally goin swimming at my local pool with them.....and if there is a birthday party imma be firin mah lazooor!!!!!!! :gun: Byebye balloon hehe.

Bump....I know it is not good etiquette to bump your own threads, but I have given it 3 years and still nothin

Hi WBS, I'm Lazerbeak :wave: Wow, that ferrofluid is freakin' amazing. I remember science experiments with magnets and metal filings but this is really beautiful and mathematical...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WXvar-4M6VA

Thanks for sharing that. I used to hang out at the local science museum when I was in high school. they had a laser that the high school docents would play with after hours. it was huge, like 1 and a half feet long, beige and it was a red laser and the coolest most beautiful thing I ever saw, it was like science fiction for real. I too have always wanted to do cool things with lasers. In fact tonight I'm going to try and put a laser diode out of a cheap flashlight/laser combo into a streamlight nano flashlight. I hope it works... (fingers crossed) I would love to hear about any projects or ideas you might have. If you want to check out my progress you can here. If you're busy though, no worries I understand. Life can be like that.
http://laserpointerforums.com/f51/my-first-builds-thoughts-suggestions-please-82231.html


~ LB

Welcome to the forums, try not to bump old threads.

Haha, thanks I was looking at my old threads and was like "what? I never got any replies to my welcome thread...." #sadface. Lol

Haha #noonecaredaboutyouwhenyouwereanoob

Holly Crap... not even one response when you joined....

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lol...that gave me a chuckle, WB! I haven't had my coffee yet, and it took me a minute to figure out what was going on here!

Haha welcome to the forum! Lol :beer: