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YES! I know now! Just take a 1 mW red, do some LSD, and point it around! As long as you keep doing the acid, you'll have your very own lightsaber. If you don't want to use drugs, you could head over to your nearest Home Depot and grab yourself a wormhole generator. Just set it so that the mouth...

If anyone figures out how to bend light without using any sort of substance, but through some other force, tell me. You could probably do this with a small black hole... Otherwise you would need something to reflect or absorb the light at the end so it doesn't go on into infinity. Most...

I say that with millions of dollars it is possible. If you had millions of dollars to throw around, you could literally create the technology to do this. I'm sure people said that these relatively inexpensive, tiny 12x blu-ray diodes were completely impossible 10 years ago, but with all of the...

Thanks, I can't believe I didn't see that! I just ordered a pair. I need something that I could wear without getting laughed at. :cool:

You guys are so negative! I'm sure if you had a high enough budget, something like this would be possible. You just have to figure out what to do with the beam so that it doesn't keep going forever and ever. If you shot some insanely high powered red lasers (multi-kilowatt) along the sides of a...

I have no idea how diode drivers work at all, so I'm just going to sit here until you two figure this out... :confused: Also, the more I look at the size of this driver, the more I wonder how I'm going to do all of this. If the power runs through both of the pins of the pot, then is the power...

I've actually seen one like that. SKYlaser Power Adjustable Laser Review - SlipperyBrick.com For my build, it would probably be more like 50mW and 500mw though. :D Yay 12x blu-ray! The most I would really want would be like 4 positions. I'd probably set them to 10mW, 50mW, 200mW, 500mW. I wonder...

I don't really care whether you get a test batch, but IMO the faster shipping deal isn't worth it. I change my mind on the colors, I think I'd just like 600 blue. Are we going to have enough people to get 12,000?

There's no limit to what I could do with a few resistors, a dummy load, and a multimeter. I have the last 2, but I don't know what kind of resistors I would need. I'll probably try messing around with the MicroBoost drive once I get my hands on some resistors. If a pot is just an adjustable...

So.... putting a second pot with the driver is bad? Btw, when you say I could put the 2nd pot "in series with" the driver, does that mean [battery]--[2nd pot]--[driver]--[diode] or does it mean [battery]--[driver]--[2nd pot]--[diode]? @Benm all I know of the circuitry of the microdrive is what...

You're probably right. I have no idea whether the pot case connects to the circuit. Maybe it does in only some models. :thinking: I need to find a carbon fiber screwdriver... :banghead: Maybe if I just filled in the screwdriver slot in the pot then glued a nonmetal little rod to the filled in...

:D Someone who isn't electronically retarded like I am! This might actually work! Would I just try a bunch of different resistors until I found the right one that would give the right upper current limit, or is there a formula that would determine what power resistor I should use to get that max...

It got here, and it is SO nice. It's about as long as my thumb and appears to be of incredibly high quality. I really like the on/off button on the back. It's soft, rubbery, and has a really smooth, natural feel. The surface is nice and shiny yet appears to be quite durable. I just can't believe...

Those are good ideas. I was thinking about something like that. Maybe I could find a really really really small ammeter, disassemble it, and somehow stick it in there after the driver, so it would display what current I'm giving the diode as I adjust the driver with the screwdriver knob thing...

Cool! I was thinking this would be a good idea because then I could make my 500mW :eek: somewhat safe to use indoors around somewhat reflective surfaces, without needing to carry around a second moderately powered laser. I also don't think it would be a great idea to use a power monster as a...

That's pretty cool, I've never seen that before. Thanks for helping out a noob in need. :) You can count me in for 100 reds, 100 greens, 100 blues, and 200 whites at 2-3 cents a led.

I don't know if this is a horrible idea or if it has already been brought up and shot down, but what if someone made a laser that had some sort of knob that would allow you to adjust the current without opening the thing up? Perhaps it would be soldered onto the pot or something, and you could...

If you literally filled the box up with LEDs and somehow lit them all, then you would be correct. Chances are you would most likely be putting them ON a cube, and not in the cube. The surface area of a 10x10x10 LED cube would be 600. That's not really what I was wondering, but whatever. Are...

I'm totally new to LEDs, but this thread has inspired me. What is everyone mounting these things on in these massive quantities?

Yeah, I rarely say this, but Tech Junkie outpissed me. :worthy: