Beam Hacks

We're plenty familiar with the famous phasers of Star Trek, set to stun or kill and now you can build your own blue laser phaser gun.  Taking the shell from a toy laser gun, this modder user two blu-ray laser diodes.  Although blu-ray lasers can...

Here’s another fantastic tutorial from Jay, a DIY lasers expert. See all of our DIY Laser Projects. I modified this very nice Stainless Steel flashlight into a 50mW green laser. It is very heavy duty, and super small.  Below, I will show the...

Here's another fantastic tutorial from Jay, a DIY lasers expert. See all of our DIY laser projects. I'd like to show off my new desk top laser lamp! It's a fairly simple project and makes for a nice display piece. Basically, this is a 10 inch...

Here's a fantastic tutorial from Jay, a DIY lasers expert. This tutorial will walk you through building your own incredibly high power laser and cooling it using Peltier plates. The peltiers are cheap and so is the box, fan, and heatsink. The big...