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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.
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:
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
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.
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:
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