Build Your Own Blu-Ray Phaser November 8, 2007
by Anthony Pascale , Filed under: Merchandise , trackbackCBS and Paramount may have embraced HD-DVD as the Star Trek format for the foreseeable future, but there is still a way to put Blu-Ray to good use.
HD-DVD Phasers too
In two weeks if you buy the new HD-DVD Star Trek Season One Box set and a Toshiba HD-DVD player, you will receive your very own Phaser/Remote Control. CLICK FOR DETAILS
(h/t to BoingBoing)
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First!
Okay, I’ll go to hell for that.
But I’ve never been First!
At least you realize it Dennis…………….:-)
So he built it all for under 100 bucks …
Where does the cost of the replica phaser, and the Playstation 3 fit in? Because that seems like upward around 700 dollars worth of items destroyed, to make this under 100 dollar blu-ray phaser laser spazer.
It is awesome though.
are we concerned about going blind?
if you post this story, do you get to be named in the lawsuits?
does anyone know if this is remotely medically safe?
I would be pretty upset If I couldnt see the next trek because I burnt my eyes out with a dumbarse homemade “blue ray light laser Phaser”
#4: He specifically said he bought the PS3 blu-ray assembly for $45 and the replica phaser for about $30.
i hope he can build a Geordi visor for after his home-made laser surgery.
I already have the classic phaser, I’d save $30 and still be able to make it. Too bad I don’t know enough about the rest of it to make it without screwing up.
You wouldn’t screw it up, just make it fire backwards and take off your hand. Great idea unless your kids get hold of it.
Well there is one other good use for Blu-ray besides playig movies in better quality. I have to make that thing for myself!!!
OK, I had to watch it with with the sound down (the missus was babysitting the grandspawn, and he finally fell asleep), but where the hell did the emitter cone go on the mockup? Wha’d I miss there? I’d been toying with the idea of doing the same thing with a keychain laser pointer, so I could drive the neighbor’s cat nuts. LOL
Hey, he sits on the roof of our shed and does the same thing to our Dachshunds, OK? ;-)
I think that if you are dumb enough to injure yourself with a hand-held laser (much like the readily available pointers you can buy for $2) then there are larger issues in your life than this cool little gizmo.
LMAO@ #13. My thoughts exactly. But you drove it home with the subtlety of a magnetic rail gun. ;-)
OK, buy a 600 dollar playstation, dismantle it, and make a phaser? Is that what I get from this video (I couldn’t watch it with the sound on)?
If so it had better at least be able to stun someone. LOL
5–Way too up tight…..relax a little.
As for the cost, please see post #7. That is cheap enough that I’m thinking of putting this together with my son as sort of a fun little electronics project.
What a fun way to drive my cat insane!
Peace. Live long and prosper.
The Vulcanista }:-|
Am I the only person baffled by electronic engineering?
Also, I hope the Remastered folks are looking at this beam for future phaser beam effects.
I wonder if the blue beam is only visible to electronic eyes. If it was visible in regular conditions I’d probably build it.
Geez, do you guys who are worried about the “safety” of the thing plan on shooting it into your eyes? Don’t point the thing at your face, and I’m sure you’ll be fine.
#20 – What do you mean? The laser was clearly visible. He even described how it looked!
Instructions on how to not blind yourself with said Star Trek blue-ray phaser:
#1: Don’t point it at your face!
That’s pretty much it.
He described the laser that hit the wall. I was refering to the line that emitted from the phaser to the wall. I doubt the line will appear in real light. Camer sensors can pick up things like that which we cannot easily see. If it did I’d buy 100 of those lasers.
Build the dream.
#24: It looked to me like there was smoke in the beam, to make it visible.
As far as his instructions…Christ, he blurts this stuff out like it’s commonplace. I’m reminded of Troy McClure’s “Easy Foundation Repair” video: “Do you have carbon-fiber stucco-lath? Good! Assemble your aluminum J-channels! Now barge the lath!”
Yeah I was watching the video again and it looked hazy. If there was ome way to emit a solid beam I would be happy forever.
hell, I will just buy it from him for $60., why make it I am not an engineer,
Far as I know, no lasers are dicernable without the aid of smoke or some particulate in the air. Toyboxs have had to have disclaimers for years because nimrods would buy like toy laser guns and be all disappointed.
Additional warning: Do not fire at yourself in a mirror. ;-)
Perhaps he should combine this video as well: http://www.metacafe.com/watch/497525/how_to_make_a_burning_laser_save_100s_of/
Had he bought an HD-DVD player, the lasers used in those are very similar so he could have saved himself some cash for the same effect. Neat idea though.
For those out there into Trek props, as I am, this is very cool. Finally a blue diode in a phaser!
To those out there who think it’s stupid, screw off!
(Too bad he used a Playmates phaser instead of an Art Asylum, though.)
Nice job… but, 100 bucks? *cough* GEEK *cough*… haha. I’m just jealous is all. I wouldn’t have the patience or the time to be at that.
I think it’s way cool. I personally don’t the Master Replica guys have made anything remotely as cool as the phaser since. They shot their wad so to speak on it, IMO.
Now let’s see somebody make a Gary Seven servo pen.
#26: HAHA – “The Half-Assed Approach to Foundation Repair.” Probably one of the best Phil Hartman moments EVER
Do you have extruded poly-vinyl foam insulation? If you don’t have metal stucco lath, use carbon-fiber stucco lath…
I love how the assumtion is that all Star Trek fans happen to be electical engineers.
I’m pretty sure this thing is considerably more dangerous than you think.
Lasers of the power class used in DVD (and, presumably, Blu Ray) players are powerful enough to cause permanent eye damage even when viewed indirectly, such as through reflections off a wall. The way in which the brain interprets visual input from the eye means that you could develop blind spots in your vision and not even recognize it.