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Laser Hacks |
 | Extremely Impressive DIY RGB Laser Projector
An electronics student Poland is well on his way to a lucrative career if he keeps coming up with great projects like this RGB laser projector made from scratch. All the components are mounted inside an aluminum briefcase with a hole in the... |
 | DIY Dazzling Laser Light Party Ball
Here's a challenge for you: stuff over a dozen red lasers and a rechargeable lithium ion battery inside a tennis ball. Oh, and also a microcontroller and infrared port to control patterns from afar. To make your own, the author has... |
 | Make a Laser Etching PCB CNC
We have featured quite a few DIY CNC Plotters, but when it comes to etching precision printed circuit boards, this DIYer things lasers are the way to go. RepRap (Replicating Rapid Prototypes) are open source 3d printers which can replicate their... |
 | DIY Kinect-Powered DJ Mixing + Laser Show
We've seen some neat applications of the Kinect + Lasers before. This project utlizes the Kinect's gesture recognition to control lasers and audio to allow for custom DJ mix creation on the fly. It uses DMX protocol, Ableton Live, and custom... |
 | How to: Dead Space 2 Plasma Laser Gun
Fans of Dead Space 2 have a new hack to drool over. The third-person survival game has inspired this DIY laser "plasma cutter" project which modifies a toy replica with dual lasers. The original 3 LEDs have been replaced with a high power blue 1W... |
 | Superb Open Source CNC Laser Cutter
The Open Source movement sets another fine example with this superb 2-axis laser cutting/engraving station. This is version 2.0 which has a more compact size measuring 12” x 20” x 4”. The DIY laser cutter/engraver has a manual vertical axis... |
 | DIY 1MW Pulse Laser Gun
This custom pulse laser gun is packed with a 1 Megawatt laser capable of destroying a multitude of materials. The 1 MW laser is able to be battery powered becuase it only pulses on for a fraction of a section to burn through plastic (and even... |
 | Build a Burning Red Laser from an Old PC
Here’s another neat way to make use of that old computer that has been lying around your house: Turn it into a red burning laser using parts salvaged from the dead computer. The burning laser is powerful enough for you to wear safety... |
 | Iron Man Repulsor: Blue Laser Project
The Iron Man repulsor light laser shoots a beam of crisp, blue laser light directly out from your palm. We've seen some similar Iron Man projects which recreate the rupulsor effect when Iron Man lifts his arm pulls back his hand.
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 | How to: Laser Microphone for Long-Range Spying
Here's a super simple laser microphone project which is fairly easy to construct, yet is still impressive. This laser microphone is a covert surveillance device which uses lasers to capture vibrations from a smooth surface. The bounced signal is... |
