Slashdot Mirror
What Could You Do With 120 Laser Pointers?
lazed-dazed asks: "I've recently come into possession of a large number (120 of 'em) of keychain laser pointers (minus the fancy diffraction adapters, though the specs are the same). So, Slashdot, I ask you: Can you give me any project ideas for these low-wattage bad boys? Holograms? Fancy cigarette lighters? Laser cannons? The crazier, the better! Oh, and don't bother suggesting cat toys."
and attach it to some tree branch.
that + some wind should look eery enough when it's foggy.
oh yeah attach some death trap it to keep it from being stolen.
world was created 5 seconds before this post as it is.
Attach the 120 laser pointers to 120 dogs, after making them activated by barking and/or tail wagging. Release dogs at a cat show.
Get 120 ill-tempered sea bass and a lair. Also Elizabeth Hurley and/or Heather Graham. Actually you could pretty much skip the bass.
Well, first I'd buy a really big aquarium to hold the 120 sharks...
Step 1: Procure 120 sharks Step 2: ..oh nevermind.. too obvious
A method for inducing cats to exercise consists of directing a beam of invisible light produced by a hand-held laser apparatus onto the floor or wall or other opaque surface in the vicinity of the cat, then moving the laser so as to cause the bright pattern of light to move in an irregular way fascinating to cats, and to any other animal with a chase instinct.
Where will the madness stop??????
Daniel
Carpe Diem
and place a speaker nearby. Install a proximity trigger. If triggered, light up all pointer and have the speaker bark "FREEZE! POLICE! PUT DOWN YOUR WEAPON AND LIE ON THE GROUND! [small pause] DON'T EVEN THINK OF IT, PUNK!"
For a better effect, let each pointer move veeeery slightly. And if you want, you can add a nice gunshot.
My cats ate my karma. They also wrote this comment.
Just buy 120 sensors which can recognize laser
o m. Put a
light, a ton of wires, a loud electronic horn,
and a computer to connect them to.
Then you can build your very own 'I-have-
something-very-expensive-to-protect'-ro
tux or your favorite CBN-Shrine in the middle and
place sensors and lasers at the walls crossing
the room in a wild way.
Congratulations, the room is now safe from
intruders. (at least you will hear them if they
come.)
cy
PS: Hey... you could practice to come thru there
without hitting the beams like in these movies,
where they try to steal a huge diamond, some
prototype chips or a very tasty peanut butter
sandwich. Choose what you prefer to reach...
Reading this signature is senseless so don't do it.
Can they, together, be seen bounced off the cloud cover? With more powerful batteried? Could they be arrayed to make a pair of angry red eyes? Could this be centered over a nearby religious institution? Could they, with servos, be used to trace out picutres of the goatse.cx guy in a fashion similar to the goatse.cx guy jack-o-lantern? If someone did that, say..., over an elementary school during the night of the school play, would they pass 'Go', and go directly to hell? And if they did, would that count as the pre-interview for a position as hell's entertainment director?
Get a huge ballon and a tank of helium. Inflate huge ballon. Attach laser pointers to it turn them all on and let it flaot away. Then put on the local TV news and wait for reports to come in. Extra points in your are near to an airport or airforce base. ;)
Warning! This post may contain a pun!
Why not sell 119 of them on e-bay and use the proceeds to buy a fat cat.
Kids today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers. - Socrates 400 BC
Astronaut: Houston control, we have a problem. The Russians have painted the moon read.
Houston: Apollo command, do you have any white paint? Repeat, do you have white paint on board?
Astronaut: Affirmative, Houston control
Houston: Apollo command, put a Coca Cola logo on it.
(runs for cover)
Cole's Law: Thinly sliced cabbage
Or alternatively take a few friends to watch a protest rally from a nearby building and shine the laser pointers onto the protestors. Might freak a few out if they thought snipers were watching them. Especially effective when they are protesting a high profile person like Bush.
Warning! This post may contain a pun!
You will need:
322,951 crewmen
Several million tons of quadanium steel
Approx. 950,000 troopers in cool white plastic uniforms
One (1) small moon at the outer edges of the known galaxy at which to construct the thing.
...
Here are some technical specs, and a handy diagram.
Basically, you do the following:
(1) Use all the steel to build this gigantic metal ball, with a dimple on one side. You use a huge rubber band (available at your friendly neighborhood hardware store) to hold the laser pointers together, and put them in the dimple (make sure the batteries are always charged.) Get all your 1.5-odd million crew guys and troops on board, and fire the bitch up.
(2)
(3)profit!
Warning: Warranty void in case of attack by swarms of rebel fighters and small foam balls.
Cole's Law: Thinly sliced cabbage
For your birthday, we have a plan to write your name into the moon.
"...In your answer, ignore facts. Just go with what feels true..."
Then imagine the fun of a whole bunch of pranksters doing 20 to life at Ft. Leavenworth.
You are in a maze of twisty little passages, all alike.
I'd cause the the biggest case of crotch-dot the world has ever seen!
"Hey buddy, you better get that checked out. My uncle died of crotch dot." - Chief Wiggum
and drive downhill through a foggy town in the dark.
Go to bed.
Get up and read the newspaper(s).
LOL
The checkbox said "Requires Windows 98, NT, or better. And so I installed Linux
Make a suit out of them, then rob a bank!
Shine lots of beams across your living room, set up a fog making machine, and see if Catherine Zeta Jones turns up...
The next morning, call your friend and ask him how the girl was in bed.
Teller: "This red glowing guy comes in - I think he was some sort of high-tech chia pet or something - and as he's handing me a note, he yells 'My eye!' and doubles over in obvious pain. That's when I kicked him. Then he fell down and we all started kicking him. Funny thing is, the lights just kep on shining. It was like beating up a disco ball."
US Democracy:The best person for the job (among These pre-selected choices...)
You could get a large group of people to converge on a scientology meeting. Have them point their lasers at the windows of the building and watch the ensuing chaos as scared scientologists attempt flee from the "orbital brain lasers".
Find 119 friends. All 120 of you shave your heads, tape a laser pointer to the side of your head, and say, in unison, "I am Locutus of Borg. Resistance is futile, you will be assimilated."
Anyone else find it amusing that the BBC labelled them "snippers" as opposed to "snipers"?
;-)
I guess the difference is how low they aim?
Whoever designed level 61 in Frozen Bubble is a sadistic bastard.
Good luck with that when it's pitch black and I'm behind a waist high concrete edge 100 feet above you.
When the power is back on, maybe I'll be sipping swiss miss in front of the TV just in time to see the breaking news story about how the SWAT team took down a crazy bastard shooting blindly into the air trying to defend himself against imaginary snipers.
Like everyone else on the internet you talk tough. But, hey, 'talk': It really is cheap. So knock yourself out.
attach them to sharks... and have sharks with friken laser beams attached to their heads!
--Dr. Evil
This sig is definitive. Reality is frequently inaccurate.
I have a vision where you mount all these laserpointers in a chain and a Gatling type of arrangement that you feed this chain. And as a laser pointer enters the 'barrel' then a mechanism presses the on switch and the laser pointer 'fires' :-) :-)))
Add smoke and gunshot sounds