Blu-Ray Laser Phaser

[BlindSquirrel]

I don't know if this has been posted but here's a video showing how to add a Blu-Ray laser from a Playstation 3 to a Star Trek Phaser toy. It actually throws out a visible beam!

Phaser tutorial

He's got other cool videos too!

 

[Mechamaniac]

Is that the Art Asylum phaser?

 

[darthgoat]

Wow that is really neat!

 

[Commander Voltaire]

Whoa! Thats rad!

 

[DuneMuadDib]

Is that the Art Asylum phaser?

No. Looks like a Playmates.

 

[foxbatkllr]

Wouldn't that be dangerous (i.e. blinding)?

 

[phez]

That is cool. You can do that with the laser from an old CD burner also.

Wouldn't that be dangerous (i.e. blinding)?

Yes, the CD burner laser could pop balloons, etc... :lol

 

[Blackbirdcd]

It's a Playmates Phaser

 

[phase pistol]

Neat-o!

Too bad he used a Playmates. Also he seems to have cut away the emitter plexi and part of the housing. :unsure

And his circuit leaves out the sound effects. :lol

- k

 

[GrenadeKing]

How long until we see a kit in the JY? :lol

 

[Star Wars Helmets]

I WANT ONE!!!!

Cheers

Jez

 

[boodha]

Coolness-
But looks like he did away with the plastic emitter nozzle thingy.

Too bad. I wonder why he couldn't leave it on?

Cool anyway, popping Klingon balloons

 

[UFO]

ill pay someone to do this for me...ill even send them my AA phaser to use to make it....

 

[phez]

I have to build one of these. Has anyone found the Blue 405nm laser diode for a decent price. It looks like there is a shortage of them and they are fairly expensive everywhere I have looked.

 

[Great_Bizarro]

Now you could drill a small hole down the clear cone and use it. Probably light up the cone as well as cast the beam.
Here is some info that may be of use
http://members.misty.com/don/laserdon.html

Found a blue laser pointer, see bottom of page
http://www.cnilaser.com/blue.htm

 

[franz bolo]

You'll burn your eye out! :lol

FB

 

[drcrash]

Anybody interested in doing this might want to check out this thread on www.laserpointerforums.com

http://www.laserpointerforums.com/forums/YaBB.pl?num=1194391816

There are people over there who know how to do it better. Most people advise that you don't run a laser without a constant-current regulator.

If you do run it with just a battery and a resistor, it's good to add a capacitor to soften the startup spike, which can kill the laser immediately.

There's a lot of variation between individual lasers of the same make and model. In a given simple circuit, some will be dim, some will work fine, and others will fry. You may want a trimpot (cheap little potentiometer) in the circuit to tune it to your individual laser (a bit above its lasing threshold, to get it nice and bright, but not to much above, to avoid burning it out).

(Or something like that... I'm not a laser guy... but there are hard core laser geeks over on www.laserpointerforums.com who seem like they'd be happy to give advice on improving this thing.)