Laser Enthusiast Builds Super-Dangerous Homemade Pistol

[Roxor]

The future's here kids.

Seconded. Who cares about jetpacks or flying cars when you've got massively powerful and interconnected computers?

 

[Nukey]

I've got roughly one thousand dollars worth of spending money available to me at this moment, if the price is within my reach, I'm down for buying one.

 

[SmileyBat]

If a hobbyist can make this, in his spare time, with fairly simple components, then why haven't we already got military grade laser weaponry already??

The military is currently testing a large cannon that sits on top of an APC. It's made to fire heat at you in such a quantity as to be unbearable, like getting the worst sunburn of your life in about 2 seconds from a FUCKING long ways away. It was featured on Future Weapons, but I can't remember what they called it.

We're not far off

OT: It's cool that everyone's saying it's cool... And really it is, I was just expecting more people to wonder "Dude, that looks fucking dangerous" and he's willing to sell them to whomever... I don't think I like this...

If you wanted to buy a gun right now you could. At any rate, we'll be hearing about news reports of a laser accident soon enough...

 

[SmileyBat]

Great. Another way for idiots who think they're cool to seriously hurt themselves and others. =S

Lasers aren't toys, people.

Even if you take everything away, they'll still find something to hurt themselves with. Look at backyard wrestling.

 

[justnotcricket]

Great. Another way for idiots who think they're cool to seriously hurt themselves and others. =S

Lasers aren't toys, people.

Even if you take everything away, they'll still find something to hurt themselves with. Look at backyard wrestling.

This is eminently true, I just happen to spend an inordinate amount of time working with very dangerous lasers, and the whole 'Yay! Pew pew pew!' attitude here sent chills down my spine. =S

I realise people are kidding, but when you're responsible for the health and safety of an entire laser laboratory, you get twitchy about this sort of thing ;-)

 

[Jaker the Baker]

I don't know if I trust the credentials of a man who writes such sentences as "Moment of impact, freezed"...

 

[Bloodstain]

I'm SO going to buy one..

pewpewpewpewpewpewpewpewpew!

 

[gmaverick019_v1legacy]

Your puny lasers are no match for this!

En garde!

haha that en garde part made me laugh, nice one.


OT: well we have had laser type technology like this for quite a while, glad to see a non mainstream user is able to construct something like this, this is pretty cool! if only it would have it's own cool sound effects..

 

[aegix drakan_v1legacy]

This is totally freakin badass.

But can it be set to stun? THEN I'd want one.

 

[not_the_dm]

Um... no. Watch the video again and pause it at 2:03. See that there? The little oblique spheroid of blue-white light? To my mind, that is proof that it is not what he says it is. If it were a laser pulse you would not be able to see anything from the side. I'm fine with this sort of thing in fiction, in fact, I really like it, but in reality? No. I doesn't happen. Also he states that it is a ball of plasma in mid flight. A Plasma is superheated gas found in a star where Nuclear Fusion takes place. Plasma is also notoriously difficult to maintain control of, the most popular way (used in about 70% of experimental fusion reactors) is a huge magnetic field, ie not one that can be produced by something hand-held such as his foot long "pulse laser". Personally I'm inclined to think that it's a projectile weapon with a camera flash incorporated into the design.

Sorry to be a kill-joy and all, but I thought you deserved to know...

 

[jcg]

. A Plasma is superheated gas found in a star where Nuclear Fusion takes place. Plasma is also notoriously difficult to maintain control of, the most popular way (used in about 70% of experimental fusion reactors) is a huge magnetic field, ie not one that can be produced by something hand-held such as his foot long "pulse laser".

Control != create. It's reasonably easy to create plasma. Light a match and put in a microwave: Plasma! (do not do this at home). The "only" thing yo have to do to create plasma is knock some electrons of the gas moleculs. The easiest way is with a high power energy beams, like say a laser beam.

 

[not_the_dm]

A Plasma is superheated gas found in a star where Nuclear Fusion takes place. Plasma is also notoriously difficult to maintain control of, the most popular way (used in about 70% of experimental fusion reactors) is a huge magnetic field, ie not one that can be produced by something hand-held such as his foot long "pulse laser".

Control != create. It's reasonably easy to create plasma. Light a match and put in a microwave: Plasma! (do not do this at home). The "only" thing you have to do to create plasma is knock some electrons of the gas moleculs. The easiest way is with a high power energy beams, like say a laser beam.

You're talking about ionised gases, whilst plasma is ionised it is also superheated. Indeed, ionised gases are formed all the time on Earth, by the UV radiation emitted by the sun, by radioactive sources such as the Americium in your smoke detector and a plethora of other things. My point (admittedtly poorly outlined) was that the plasma would have simply sparked out without sufficient containment, such as a tokamak.

 

[sdfasdfhfgfgjtyisdgdfdfj]

Pew pew pew! <3