Hi everyone, I've been lurking around here for a while but figured I might as well sign up if I'm going to be getting into this hobby.
I've got a 50mW greenie from budgetgadgets, and a <5mW 405nm from ebay (real output is probably much higher though). I'm quite satisfied with both.
I don't know if other people have done these but there are a few cool things I discovered I can do with my UV laser that are pretty trippy.
1. Shine it on highlighters.
2. Put a bunch of different colored papers (bright are better) on a wall and then swirl the laser around over all of them with the lights off. It looks like the laser is constantly changing colors.
3. If they're serving gin and tonics at a party, point the laser through your drink and the beam looks whitish blue, because the tonic water glows. Good party trick.
4. If you have any glow in the dark stuff, drag your laser across it and the glow will sit there in a straight line and not fade for a few minutes. Its best if you get some glow in the dark putty (ThinkGeek :: Smart Mass Thinking Putty click on the glow in the dark pictures). Then you can really trip people out by morphing the shapes you've already drawn. Definitely worth buying!
Do you guys have any other cool tricks for bright green or UV lasers? I've already tried burning with the greenie, works fairly well on black plastic but not worth the effort for anything else.
I look forward to getting to know this place better.
I've got a 50mW greenie from budgetgadgets, and a <5mW 405nm from ebay (real output is probably much higher though). I'm quite satisfied with both.
I don't know if other people have done these but there are a few cool things I discovered I can do with my UV laser that are pretty trippy.
1. Shine it on highlighters.
2. Put a bunch of different colored papers (bright are better) on a wall and then swirl the laser around over all of them with the lights off. It looks like the laser is constantly changing colors.
3. If they're serving gin and tonics at a party, point the laser through your drink and the beam looks whitish blue, because the tonic water glows. Good party trick.
4. If you have any glow in the dark stuff, drag your laser across it and the glow will sit there in a straight line and not fade for a few minutes. Its best if you get some glow in the dark putty (ThinkGeek :: Smart Mass Thinking Putty click on the glow in the dark pictures). Then you can really trip people out by morphing the shapes you've already drawn. Definitely worth buying!
Do you guys have any other cool tricks for bright green or UV lasers? I've already tried burning with the greenie, works fairly well on black plastic but not worth the effort for anything else.
I look forward to getting to know this place better.
