My Homemade 40W LASER SHOTGUN!

I stumbled upon this young mans video about a 40w homemade laser 'shotgun' he made. I wish I had the technology background to make fun toys like this. I wanted to share this with ATS simply because it looks like fun to play make and find things to destroy.

Who doesn't like to find things to blow up?!?

a reply to: Metallicus

Must build one...bigger!! I could be a rubbish super hero.
You can bet firing that up in the night sky is illegal. I dunno.

Wait for a black triangle to fly over first...

That purple hue when he fires it scream carcinoma to me.

what a coincidence here is a scene from 1984 terminator in a gun store asking for a 40 watt plasma rifle .

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WoW !!!!!

a reply to: Metallicus

Well, I believe that this has to be one of the most fantastic ideas I have ever heard of! I love that he put a close range adaptor on the thing, because focusing all those beams onto a single spot through it is a great way to bring the effective range on the item down, for precision use... Hehe!

Anyway, I want one, perhaps several.

What I really want to do is build a concave mount for several clusters of these lasers, and a focusing lens to capture all the laser light and focus it on a specific point. There are so many different kinds of fun I could have with something like that!

I looks cool and everything. Probably expensive.
But there are commercially available flashlights that will light paper on fire.
equipped.outdoors
It is only 100 watts.

a reply to: TrueBrit

Your destructive side precedes you sir. I want to use it to send messages!

look into it

That's a cool laser gun, but I'm still curious about the moth. Was that thing real??

a reply to: Jonjonj

Destructive?

Well yes, that is always a source of amusement. But assuming one could build the device well enough, one could develop a ground drone to carry it and point its power straight downward. This would allow potential testing of the system for use in a variety of applications, like ground ice clearance, thermal cleaning of high strength coated flooring and so on.

It would also be a bad ass fire lighter for when you want to start barbecuing either really late, stupidly early, or during really inopportune weather events!

a reply to: Metallicus

That was cool! I want one.

originally posted by: Indigent
That purple hue when he fires it scream carcinoma to me.[/

The purple is easy to explain . It was powered by Barney batteries .

originally posted by: haven123
look into it

LOL
His next vid will be - Never look into a laser beam

Yes!Yes!Yes! I would love to have one

Interesting... but..

He really needs to add some sound effects to go with the beam.

Pew pew pew!

I'm going to build something similar in the next several months.

But I want to streamline it. Make a cooling assembly, and more sustainable power.

That is fantastic. I want one. Reminds me of something out of Fallout, but maybe that's just because I've got Fallout 4 on the brain after the announcement. If somebody can build a laser weapon in his home so easily, why is anyone still using metal bullets at this point? Technology is amazing.

We will be reading about this kid in 100 years as the father of the lazer rifle..

Because in a 100 years from now everyone will have one..

That man is going to be rich after the DoD finds this video.