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Video  Posts: 39 Joined: 9 Feb 2009     | |
Infamous Scribbler  Posts: 547 Joined: 16 Nov 2008     | AWESOME... Gotta go try this RIGHT NOW!! Set phasers to "liquefy" |
Muckraker  Posts: 312 Joined: 13 Apr 2008   | STOP ENCOURAGING US!!! I want one... |
Pulitzer Laureate  Posts: 800 Joined: 17 Jan 2009    | aww damn, i'm already making wrist mounted flamethrowers, so i can't do this |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 2745 Joined: 27 Mar 2009     | Must... set... to stun... |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1812 Joined: 8 Apr 2008    | Well that's certainly over my head. Cool idea, though. |
Flunky  Posts: 112 Joined: 8 Aug 2008     | Love the Vanna White hand motions. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1446 Joined: 17 Jul 2009    | What the...? You stole my cutters!
My thoughts exactly, minus the capacity for critical thought thing. |
Muckraker  Posts: 348 Joined: 25 Nov 2008   | I already built something like that, I built a chassis to hold several dvd drive (grade 2 I think), they were aimed at certain points on a reflective concave frame to concentrate on a reflective centre which fired the beam outwards. You could burn through loads of stuff with this, I think I reached around 400oC if memory serves before it burnt out. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1576 Joined: 3 Dec 2008   | Wow you lot just got a whole lot more awesome, not just to find those friends who did electronics and get them on it |
Community Manager  Posts: 612 Joined: 14 Dec 2004   | Ah, that's definitely awesome, if only I had the know-how to pull that off successfully, I would definitely try. But in all honesty, I'd probably get about 1/3 of the way through before my wife shuts the project down. :( |
Honorable Mention: Escapist Film Festival  Posts: 343 Joined: 11 Nov 2008   | Okay - that's weak. I'm not going to say that I can do anything better, but seriously...who releases a how-to video with a product that doesn't work when you're done. "But trust me, its awesome" lol. Not to knock you guys, props on putting this together, but if my teacher can't do it I don't think I'll try it myself. |
Video Producer  Posts: 382 Joined: 21 Jul 2008    |
I had a high school health teacher put a condom on the end of a golf club to demonstrate safe sex. It broke. Does that mean you shouldn't use condoms? Here's the thing - it works exactly as expected. However, I was hamfisted in my installation of a lens - a part that normally is installed by the laser supplier. Even the greatest chef can cut a finger off by simply not paying enough attention. If you decide to build one for yourself using this how-to, chances are overwhelmingly positive that yours will actually burn stuff, since you won't have to do that particular step. I'll post on Youtube or something when my replacement lens comes in, if there is demand for results. |
Senior Editor  Posts: 2280 Joined: 9 Jan 2007   | As the Mythbusters remind us, even a failure is a result. Besides, now you know we're not faking it. :) |
Pulitzer Laureate  Posts: 780 Joined: 7 Jun 2008   | Mr. Haines looks kind of vaguely disappointed he didn't get the phaser to work properly. I would probably never make this, likely do to lack of need/appropriate level of Star Trek fandom, but I did sort of want to see it in action by the end. |
Beat Writer  Posts: 146 Joined: 19 Jan 2009  |
Only on golf clubs. Anywho. |
Paperboy  Posts: 22 Joined: 17 Feb 2009    | I'd just make it so that there was a laser light inside, pull the trigger and get a red beam. but that was wicked cool! i wish you had shown the actual burning instead of just saying it will burn them, though. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1792 Joined: 23 Apr 2009     | This is information that you should NEVER disclose to me, or 90% of internet users. I love the recent trend to how-to videos, first the PS3 SSD, now this. Keep up the how to videos, but at your current rate, what will next week's be? Something even more deadly? Keep them coming! :D |
Pulitzer Laureate  Posts: 979 Joined: 25 Sep 2008    | I.... I couldn't stop staring at his thick facial hair. |
Press Junketeer  Posts: 407 Joined: 11 Apr 2009 | Oh good grief. XD. As much as I've contemplated doing this at some point, I never got beyond the idea of a laser pointer... Making one powerful enough to burn things? Let's just say I suspect it'd get me arrested around here. XD. |
Paperboy  Posts: 38 Joined: 12 Aug 2009   | Awsome....just awsome... Time to go nerd out >:D |
Muckraker  Posts: 323 Joined: 17 Jun 2009  | " So this thing is actually dangerous? Why are we making this!?" Haha. I laughed so hard at this part. And you're making this because we're all pyromaniacs at heart, and the fact it's intergrated into a Star Trek toy makes it all the more awesome. |
Pulitzer Laureate  Posts: 862 Joined: 29 May 2008    | Awesome Project |
Copy Clerk Posts: 77 Joined: 26 Mar 2008    | Way back in the day when I was taking shop class, they had this computer program called EKI. It was probably the most well-explained ground-up tutorial of basic electronics I had ever seen. It came with a solderless circuitboard kit and all sorts of other goodies. It was responsible for me getting into the otherwise impenetrable world of electronics. Had I not found that program I would have probably never have been able to get a foothold (like when I tried to learn programming.) Anyways, yeah when the internet became a household neccessity long after university I tried to find EKI or a course like it to no avail. Quite a shame. |
Paperboy  Posts: 12 Joined: 27 Jul 2008    | Would it be wrong to use a Sonic Screwdriver while building a phaser? |
Muckraker  Posts: 345 Joined: 10 Jul 2009  | I'm partial to the TNG vacuum cleaner model myself. |
Beat Writer  Posts: 195 Joined: 13 Jul 2009    | Love the thing with Pacard in the credits xD. just added a nice little finishing guffaw to my little chuckles throughout. Nice stuff guys. |
Pulitzer Laureate  Posts: 723 Joined: 24 Mar 2009 | I always thought the model that preceded the regular TOS model was rather cool (The Cage, and at least one other TOS episode). Majel Barrett was rather badass with hers. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1425 Joined: 10 Feb 2009 | I wonder if you could have fitted a bigger, more powerful and dangerous laser on a Star Wars themed blaster. You know so you can burn all the Kirk Loving, Spock Suckers. |
Honorable Mention: Escapist Film Festival Posts: 343 Joined: 11 Nov 2008 |
Hey man, sorry if I sounded like an asshole, You're obviously 20 times smarter than I am so I know I have no room to judge. I just thought it was a little funny. So again, sorry, didn't mean to sound like a dick. |
Anonymous Source  Posts: 3 Joined: 3 Sep 2009    | For those of you playing at home, there is a wonderful snippet of the Picard song & video during the credits. I know it made my day. |
Video Producer Posts: 382 Joined: 21 Jul 2008 |
No harm done - sorry to snap at you, but I was really disappointed and embarrassed that we could only show you guys a non-working phaser. [insert laser impotence joke] Feel free to PM me for build tips if you decide to make one of your own. It's certainly not easy, but you might have a better result if there's no camera crew to make you nervous. [insert nerd porn joke] |
Infamous Scribbler  Posts: 555 Joined: 16 Apr 2009  | Hmm what kind of diode laser is it, out of curiosity? Quantum well, quantum cascade, double heterostructure, what? |
Beat Writer  Posts: 162 Joined: 11 Sep 2008 | So many kids are goin to do something stupid with this is not even funny -M |
Paperboy  Posts: 37 Joined: 31 Jul 2009  | I wonder if I could use this concept to make a cigarette lighter. |
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Episode 44: Star Trek Phaser Project
We put a real laser into a Star Trek phaser. Why? Because we can.
If you plan to build this project, click here.
This week's musical guests:
Ian Dorsch - "Escapist Show Theme"
Younnat - "Old Movies Not Terrible" and "Doctor Verhovstev's Dream"
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