So if you wanted to mount this on a pice of aluminum and put a couple grips on it, with a battery power supply and finger actuated 'trigger'. How big of a battery would your need.
Asking for a friend who wants to make a laser blaster.
Mar 8, 2019
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Mar 8, 2019
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CalaverasgrandeI know this is a joke, but don't. Just don't.
CalaverasgrandeTo start here, I 100% do not endorse it nor do I recommend doing this; but if you did it's a 12 volt power supply so you could have a capacitor and several batteries which would limit how fast and how long it activates. Or you could get an A23 battery which is small and wouldn't limit your activated times.
Either way it's a bad idea since it causes burns and permanent eye damage really easily but if you did it for whatever reason get better eye protection and always do this in safe places where people can't be unintentionally harmed.
CalaverasgrandeYou'd have to rig some sort of distance measuring device on the weapon as well, which feeds that info into a microcontroller and focuses the lasers beam on the fly. An Arduino should do the trick, I would think. Then you're going to need some sort of servo to do the actual focusing. I'd say you can probably strap a few laptop batteries on this device and be good to go for a while. If you keep the batteries in their original configuration, you could even swap them like you change clips when they are exhausted. Note: this device would not help you when the robot apocalypse occurs, as this laser is not strong enough to cut metal. For that I would suggest a CO2 type laser in the >60W range.