Laser Lighter 5mW just for laughs

[SKeeZ]

Hello LPF,
I got bored last night SO, I made a Laser lighter. Its just 5mW so its just a joke but i hope you enjoy. Its powered by 2 AAAs shuved in a lighter. Heres what it looks like:

The switch:

The diode at the end of the "flame tube"

Powered on:

Beam with lots of fog

Beam with lots of fog and lights on

Long exposure

This laser was not a show off laser, i just had a spare diode so i thought it was a good idea.

 

[crazyspaz]

had to zoom browser out to 50% to see the images....please re size next time. if you google search (image re sizer) you can find some easy sites to do it for you.

but other than that, cool build! it would be fun to get some real power in it though, eh?

 

[Livinloud]

resize or you will get hit with some nasty neg rep......no one will even read this, i know i didnt bother to look at it

 

[grainde]

Well the pics arent being shown. Id suggest simply adding them as an attachment. Theres an add attachment option, at the bottom of the advanced edit page. Saves you having to resize them as it does it automatically when they are uploaded. Anyway it takes less than a few secs to resize pics to 800 x 600 in photoshop....

Cool little laser btw :beer:

 

[SKeeZ]

Sorry you guys for the terribly sized images and the exposed BBCode i got to this as soon as i could. the images are now 768x512, a more common and much smaller resolution. Thanks for your replies.

 

[Livinloud]

actually looks cool "down the barrel"

 

[ryansoh3]

Nice build, thanks for sharing! +1

 

[Wolfman29]

Very neat build! Put some real power in that though and you may actually have a real lighter XD

 

[SKeeZ]

Very neat build! Put some real power in that though and you may actually have a real lighter XD

This is called a $0 budget laser.

 

[The Lightning Stalker]

How did you get the lens and everything to fit inside that tube?

 

[SKeeZ]

I had a very small 5mw diode and i carefully pryed open the tube. I put the module in the top and connected the negative wire to the metal tube and ran the positive wire from the module all the way down the tube, through the tube to the switch on the igniter i connected a wire to the base of the tube and ran it to the battery. The laser module contains a small driver so it all got connected to two AAA's.

 

[Blaster]

Well the pics arent being shown. Id suggest simply adding them as an attachment. Theres an add attachment option, at the bottom of the advanced edit page. Saves you having to resize them as it does it automatically when they are uploaded. Anyway it takes less than a few secs to resize pics to 800 x 600 in photoshop....

Cool little laser btw :beer:

Strange I'm on my mobile S4 and pictures come out fine and right size, tiny scroll to left or right and same up and down
And no issue ...

 

[SKeeZ]

Strange I'm on my mobile S4 and pictures come out fine and right size, tiny scroll to left or right and same up and down
And no issue ...

I had to fix this issue... I ended up photoshoping them.