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What do you use your laser for?

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daguin said:
[quote author=GooeyGus link=1226186754/0#9 date=1226204176]I use them for making beams of coherent light :D
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I use mine to heat the garage ;)

Peace,
dave[/quote]


I use mines to light the room, while also heating it up :)

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I use them in my day to day work as pointers mainly. using a variety of colours in front of a classroom full of 15 year olds usually gets a reaction :)

Regards rog8811
 
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I use my lasers for Star pointing and beam shows. Astronomy is so cool. I remember the day of 10-14-08 i had all my lasers charged and i was ready to blind some alien ass lol
 
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randomlugia said:
[highlight]I shine it at random things and if it looks cool enough, I make it into a comp. wallpaper.[/highlight] ;D I'm almost done my PHR, and I'll use it for lighting fuses at a distance, I guess... Can't wait to try killing stinkbugs!
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u used it on ur pleco huh?!!?...thats why you dont have one anymore :'( :'( lol!...but do you own that Axolotl?
 
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I use them to help callibrate the LaserBee I... ;)

And to impress/scare :-/ the neighbors.... :eek:
when they see Laser beams coming from my shop pointing into
the fields.....;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
 
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Thanks for the replies.

As for myself, I have used my 2 low powered red lasers for spooking the local neighbourhood cats and filling my kids room with smoke then letting them bounce the beam off loads of mirrors placed around the room.
I have also used one as a laser sight pointer for my air rifle.

The best thing so far that I have done though was to make a perimeter alarm for my property. I don't have it set up now because it wasn't very practical, but the setup had one of the laser beams reflected around our property perimeter several times via mirrors. The beam was then directed indoors where it entered a box of electronics that controlled some garden lighting.
Basically, when the beam was broken, the lights came on.
Like I said, it wasn't very practical because every cat in the area set it off and even falling leaves in the Autumn set it off. But it was nice to see my property surrounded by loads of red beams when it was foggy at night.
 
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I use my laser for: star pointing, impressing people that it can burn stuff(for some reason nobody understands that lasers CAN actually do that---with enough power of course) time travel, and last but not least----pretending to be a jedi at night--but with an ever extending light sabre.
 
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mike666 said:
[quote author=Balisong link=1226186754/20#22 date=1226317982]pretending to be a jedi at night--but with an ever extending light sabre.
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I have been waiting for someone to say that ;D[/quote]
dude, i do that every single night, lol, i just didn't want to sound like a weirdo, but its fun as crap

yea seriously, even my 50mW green in the middle of the mountains with no light source for miles (except the stars and moon) that thing makes such a beastly light sabre
 
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Currently I'm working on designs for three scanners. The first is just green, the second RGY and the third - you guessed it - RGB.

Still waiting on a blue module from Aixiz, though, and one of the galvo sets has yet to arrive as well. Still a little early on, but I hope to have the RGB finished by the first of the year.

I'm considering trying a RGV with a blue-ray diode after th RGB is done, just to see what happens with that.
 
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Not my pleco!!! I think you know that I've said that at least 5 times already... ;) I also use mine to attract/scare animals. My fish attack at the dot, and my friend got a bird to follow it around and peck at it camping. :D
 
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I have taken red and green lasers to work for doing layouts. I don't have a permanent spirograph, but often make one up for fun, sometimes with a red and green laser set up with a dichro so I get yellow as well.
A foggy evening or morning will get me shining red, green, and violet around the yard. My 2w handheld wil slay any annoying housefly crawling on a window. Other nasty summer insect household invaders are no match for it either. Don't like spraying chemicals in my house. On my mother's birthday, she popped the balloons with one of my dvd reds. I use blurays to look for fluorescent minerals, plants, and bugs. My 2w can melt solder (1mm rosin core) and solder a very small surface mount component. Engraving on plastic items. Lots of burning as well. A good pair of goggles and a bunch of IR's can make for a good burning session. Lots of uses for lasers.
 
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i use my lasers for fun, and i burn my name into valuable electronics of mine, like my graphing calculator, ipod, cell phone, stuff like that. i also like to sow them off to people especially when they ask "where did you get those!" and i reply "the green and red are from china and the blu-ray is custom built" and they say "damn! custom built, that's awesome"
 
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The best thing so far that I have done though was to make a perimeter alarm for my property
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Wow, that's so ingenous, yet I can see how easily it can be made.I have to do that on my room door, like a zig-zag :D

only when you cross the beam , a 1000W CO2 laser starts up in the same pattern covering the door, trapping you in...then dangerous chemicals start spraying from the walls forcing you to either jump into the laser or stay and suffocate.
 
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Switch said:
Wow, that's so ingenous, yet I can see how easily it can be made.I have to do that on my room door, like a zig-zag :D
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Yes it was easy to make.
The switching unit was in kit form that I got from Maplin years ago. It had an old LDR (light dependant resistor) that the laser beam was directed to.
When there was no light detected (the beam was broken) the unit triggered a relay that switched the garden lights on.
A timer circuit then kept the lights on for the determined length of time (that was set via a pot).

I suppose it could have easially been setup to switch on anything you wanted it to. A siren, security cameras, flood lights, ect...
 
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I USE MINE TO MAKE PRETTY COLOURS ON LOW FLYING AIRCRAFT THAT TAKE OFF FROM THE AIRPORT NEAR ME ;) NAUGHTY :p

I ASLO STAND ON MY FLAT ROOF WHICH OVERLOOKS A HUGE AREA OF LONDON BECAUSE IM ONTOP OF THE HIGHEST HILL IN SOUTH EAST LONDON,

AND I SELLOTAKE MY LASER TO MY TELESCOPE, AND I POINT IT INTO PEOPLES WINDOWS, TILL THEY WAKE UP AND LOOK OUT OF THE WINDOW,

BY THEN
IM OF THE ROOF AN RUNNING :p
I ALSO USE MINE TO MAKE MY CATS TURN INTO CANABALISTIC CREATURES THAT HATE COHERRANT LIGHT FORMS :p​
 
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