Mod your PS3 Blu-Ray, make a phaser
"Set phasers to 'read discs of better than DVD quality', Mr Sulu!"
KipKay over Instructables posted this inventive little mod a few days ago, detailing how to create a Blu-Ray/Star Trek phaser for under $100.
Instead of ripping a brand new PlayStation 3 to pieces and ruining a perfectly good console (silence Nintendo fanboys!), KipKay started off by getting a PS3 Blu-Ray laser assembly off of Ebay for under $50. Couple that with an Aixiz Laser Housing ($7) and some batteries, resistors and switches, and you've got yourself a neat little laser emitter.
The cool part though is mounting it inside a classic Star Trek phaser pistol toy to create your very own Blu-Ray phaser. The not so cool part is when you accidentally blind yourself whilst playing with it.
KipKay has posted a detailed step-by-step photo guide, as well as a video of phaser in action.
Now, before you go running off to make your own Blu-Ray phasers or HD-DVD pulse rifles, we've got a quick and deliberately controversial question for you - one designed to shake the community to the core. Ready? Which is better, Star Trek or Star Wars? Discuss it on the forums!
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Discuss in the forums Replyits like asking which is better; batman or superman. like... duh!
;)
Blatantly. In the future scenarios played out by many of the Comics Superman ends up working for the government and Batman is the only true superhero left after The Punisher is killed - all others are either killed, retire or are recruited by organisations and governments. Only Batman refuses to give in and has the strength to carry on fighting for what he believes - which is why the government send Superman to kill him and why, even then, Batman is able to match him blow for blow (with kryptonite knuckledusters). IIRC the comic ends with the two of them in the sewers about to deal each other killing blows, both crying.
It's pretty obvious I spent the weekend re-reading Civil War and House of M, isn't it?
Rorscarch pwns them both though, or The Question
HD DVD uses the same blue-violet laser as Blu-Ray.. you could also pull apart a cheap HD player to blind yourself and look cool with.
That is because Star Wars is made of pure awesomeness and WIN, and thus does not need to pack it self out with non reclaimable hours from ones life.
:D
PS. The narrative on the video has to be the most annoying thing ever!
just.... no!
Holy crap no.. That show was so bad it went past bad.. went past "so bad it's good" and onwards into "so bad I want to rip my eyes out just in case I happen to see this again".
What were the makers of it thinking...! "Hmmmm I know; political babble and diplomatic wank makes for great drama.. lets recreate that wonderful boring.. then put everyone in rubber masks and get them to speak funny."
Win.
Lose.
SW also Lose, you got Jar Jar Binks. Trekkies have tribbles.
Even with an IR filter my laser will EASILY blind someone.
For the laser to be seen in air, I imagine its packing a bit of punch mw wise. Think of the dot as having about 20x the suns brightness on it + the IR radiation, which your iris will not close down for..
Just an FYI!
Cool as heck!
-EVRE
p.s. Star Trek all the way!
Fire Fly beats them all, but they dont have laser blasters.
(well, in one episode they did, but the gun didnt work!)
the only redeeming factor about that show was it was filmed in Australia.
-monkey
With Gigi Edgley ;)
Only the original unhacked SW trilogy as well as the Phantom Edits rock. All the rest blow.
Battlestar Galactica eff tee dubbya!
Oh and the best superhero issss...... well I have to com back to that.
Firefly was pretty good
Stargate was good - Atlantis is better
Red Dwarf is Fantastic
Lost faith in Battlestar Galactica tho I'll still watch it
In saying that though I'm a scifi whore I forced myself to watch some sliders the other night and it was mindless drivel...
I want the Phaser - i guess this would work with those lasers i saw on youtube bursting balloons
I mean I though that was the exotic component that drove the price up! :S
Where i am, its like £330 ... the Xbox360 is about £270 and the wii is £240 (if you can find one)
Considering how powerful the PS3 is, plus the BD capabilities, that doesn't look like a bad deal to me ....