julianthedragon
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I have a very simple question. No this is not an attempt to troll, I am genuinely curious
What are your favorite practical uses for your handheld lasers?
I'm not talking about specialized scientific uses that are inaccessible to the average hobbyist. Of course lasers have many uses and applications in fields like medicine, optics, etc and that's great but I'm interested to see if anyone has a neat everyday use that is lesser known?
These things are very powerful and unique devices that relatively few people own, so I believe naturally they should have some untapped potential to be practical in creative ways (besides balloon popping, astonomy pointing, presentations, common youtube video stuff).
Here are some ideas to get the thread started:
1. I've used my 200mw 405nm to manually serate plastic packages in the house that are hard to open. By quickly burning a line in the plastic but leaving it intact, it's now easy to rip open the packages without looking around for a pair of scissors.
2. I saw somebody on this forum say that they used a multiwatt laser to weld a small plastic toy back together for their kid. I forgot exactly which thread this was in but it was super interesting to me because it represents a way for lasers to be used to create rather than burn/destroy like usual.
3. Using a 405 to excite glow in the dark objects and a powerful red laser to erase them
Hopefully we can discover some clever everyday uses from each other
What are your favorite practical uses for your handheld lasers?
I'm not talking about specialized scientific uses that are inaccessible to the average hobbyist. Of course lasers have many uses and applications in fields like medicine, optics, etc and that's great but I'm interested to see if anyone has a neat everyday use that is lesser known?
These things are very powerful and unique devices that relatively few people own, so I believe naturally they should have some untapped potential to be practical in creative ways (besides balloon popping, astonomy pointing, presentations, common youtube video stuff).
Here are some ideas to get the thread started:
1. I've used my 200mw 405nm to manually serate plastic packages in the house that are hard to open. By quickly burning a line in the plastic but leaving it intact, it's now easy to rip open the packages without looking around for a pair of scissors.
2. I saw somebody on this forum say that they used a multiwatt laser to weld a small plastic toy back together for their kid. I forgot exactly which thread this was in but it was super interesting to me because it represents a way for lasers to be used to create rather than burn/destroy like usual.
3. Using a 405 to excite glow in the dark objects and a powerful red laser to erase them
Hopefully we can discover some clever everyday uses from each other
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