Friday, June 6, 2008

LASER Light Show in 7 Easy Steps

A few weeks ago, I grabbed 2 pieces of wood, 2 springs from a pen, a hot glue gun, a CD, and a laser to make this laser light show. Here's how you can make your own in a matter of minutes!

1) Glue one block of wood almost any size (just as long as it can fit nicely on the other piece of wood) and hot glue it tho the end of another piece of wood. The sizes are not very important as this is a simple project.

2) Extract 2 springs from 2 pens.

3) glue both springs together to make 1 larger spring (once again, just about any pen-sized spring will do).

4) Cut a pice from almost any CD, make sure it fits nicely on the springs with out making them slouch too much.

5) Glue the connected springs to the face of the board that is on top of the base.

6) Hold the laser pointer at the end of the base so its beam is hitting the CD. You can mount it later with more glue if you wish.

7) Tap the top of the wood block with your finger to get the disc piece to wobble. Be sure that the room you are in is dark and you have a nice smooth wall to project it onto. The results are amazing! With every vibration, new patterns appear on the wall. All this can be done in minutes!





P.S. They make the strangest blobs on your camera...

1 comments:

Anonymous said...

You have taken the mystery out of laser lights, and you have made experiments accessible to just commom folks like us. What a pleasure!

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