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12X BR Laser in Airsoft Gun Host

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I had a crappy airsoft gun sitting around collecting dust, so I thought to myself, "I wonder if I can turn this into an awesome laser rifle?" Turns out with a 12X Blu-Ray laser diode and a simple LM317 driver, I could.

I gutted the airsoft gun of pretty much everything except for the trigger. This gave me a lot of space to work with, when I was finished I had plenty of extra room. Here is the finished host.

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I have the LM317 set to 500mA and I'm using an AixiZ AR coated glass lens. I don't have a laser power meter so I don't know the exact output, but IIRC it should be 600mW-700mW. As far as heatsinking goes, all I got is the AixiZ module. That means I'm running very short duty cycles.

Here is the laser fluorescing off of some paper:

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So yeah, it's just another 12X build. But it's in a friggen gun host that activates when the trigger is pulled!

Here is the YouTube video I made for it. I love the distance I can pull of burning tricks with high powered blu-rays.


Here is the article Hack A Day wrote about this project: Making Airsoft guns far more potent - Hack a Day

Ubergizmo wrote one too: Airsoft gun converted to shoot lasers | Ubergizmo
 





The trigger is just a plastic lever so I pulled out the original internal mechanism and glued a momentary switch in place. It is fixed in there so that the trigger presses down the switch when pulled.
 
Thats awesome Styro
Wander if my brother will let me borrow one of his guns :whistle:
 
weeba2kv said:
sorry but this is just stupid :)
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I'm just trying to make a change up from the typical laser in a flashlight host.

millirad said:
Very nice build Styro! Looks like it will hold a lot of batteries? :)
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Surprisingly it doesn't. There was a lot of space in the magazine, but I could only fit one 9V battery in there because of its design. Talk about horrible battery life. :D

madmacmo said:
I put together a similar airsoft build from the following parts. It required no real technical effort, and not very much time. With the scope I can easily view the dot on the chimney of a house in my neighborhood a little over a block away - but I can see the laser dot clearly at that distance even without the scope. I just wish I had a clear view from my home of the water tower located a mile or so away to test my ability to accurately place the dot at that distance using the scope reticle. However, I do not wish to be witnessed pointing a laser modified airsoft gun in public, and I would highly recommend against anyone else doing so either.
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Very cool design with the scope!
 
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