Recent content by PickOfDestiny89

Yeah but I want to keep the whole design as efficient as possible. I'm sure I'll find some other projects to use a laser :yh: IED? Like IR LED or like a bomb? :p Ah good to know! Thanks!

Alright thanks a lot to all of you! Now I just need to find another project to use some lasers :D Browsing through this forum really got me!

Oh man I didn't even think about that :yabbem: Yeah I guss I could just use 1 transmitter and 2 receivers! That makes it even easier and cheaper. Is there a way I can calculate the range of the transmitter?

Thats exactly what I was looking at earlier on. Looks good and should do the job! What about the one above? How do I know if this one is a diode laser or DPSS? It doesn't say anything. I was thinking about that at first, but I want to measure the direction a person is going. So I want to...

Hmm thats what I thought. Do you have any recommendations? I mean it can be pretty low powered since it only needs to shine like 1.5m away.

Hi, I am planning on using lasers as tripwires in a circuit to activate lights. Now I was going to use some cheap laserpointer and take the laser out in order to shine it on an LED. I was just thinking though, how long can I expect the Laser to last, since it is going to be running 24/7! Should...