Honestly this has to be the most underrated channel on youtube even with almost 1 mil subs Where else can you learn about cutting edge gin brewing and then how to build a near military grade drone interception laser system ...
When I was a kid, around 12 or 13 years old, I got super into lasers. This was in the early 1990s, so access to lasers at home was pretty limited. My dad supported my desire to learn more about lasers and we acquired a He-Ne gas laser, and a power supply to run it. Built a wooden box and everything to contain it. Was a class 3a 5mW and we were super careful with where we pointed it and how we interacted around it. All that said, the ease of access to utterly eye destroying, burn your house down, solid state laser diodes is both amazing, and scares the crap out of me. I am keenly aware of just how much even the slightest slip up in safety routines could leave you with permanent eye damage, or worse. Glad to see you emphasizing the safety aspect of your insanely powerful laser setup. It was seriously impressive!
Because we kept defending the idea of peace as a function of state/nation and capital. Those are the causes of fuedalsim. You have to shift the authority of violence onto the shoulders of everyone, and off the shoulders of the nation state and capital... By doing excatly what we see here, and making community trading systems that dont means test and dont care about your status ones that are just there for benifit of everyone. I naturally prefer ones that still operate on a free market I.E. money becomes a vote not a thing thats earned but whatever works should be done.
Easily one of the best channels online! Always awesome to see such professional content balancing educational value and "coolness"...and of course, featuring one of the strongest lasers on TH-cam.
I remember when you celebrated 100k subs and now you are approaching 1million . I am very impressed with what you are doing and I am not surprised that you are achieving success. I wish you successful growth and, above all, a lot of joy in this wonderful work!
There are a number of inherent flaws in this marketing report. Targeting and tracking in milli-seconds' refers only to initial electronic 'lock'. Iron Beam maximum effective range is limited by accuracy _and minimum effective range is limited by pivot gimbaling._ All 'testing'(sic) is gamed to only optimal range and linear constant velocity targets, the same way they gamed Patriot EKV and gamed Iron Dome. They (the latter two kinetics) can't hit Russia's zigzaging missiles, for example. Second, Iron Beam has a huge flaw. Ordinary titanium white ceramic roof coating is one solid defense incoming small profile, and a 6-micron coat of gold makes them impervious as fly-over-and-drop. That's why Reagan's 1985 Space-Based Lasers never deployed, and honestly, rocket scientists back then _knew_ it would never deploy. _Not ONE of the Star Wars programs ever did._ (It was Pentagon weapons technology welfare bridge, while DoD RIF'd the military vets and the vested lifers.) They're _still_ trying to make Hypersonic Space Plane work, 40 years of wasted R&D later. Raytheon is going back to old standbys: smart-bombs with 'shoot-and-scoot GPS tailfins. The moment Iron Beam fires, the spy satellite will acquire the target, pass it to loitering stealth. F-35s and a hypersonic payload will be arcing down. Zzzzt! Poof! Zzzzt! Poof! Look! What's that up in the sky? Is it a bird? Is it a plane! It's a GPS 2000-pound Super KABLOOEY!
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I believe your channel (specifically your graphene video) appeared in my recommended videos list for the first time today. I instantly subscribed and I'm quite upset that TH-cam didn't recommend me this channel sooner. I can't wait to binge-watch the rest of your videos and see you celebrate 1 million subscribers soon!
I helped run a competition about 10 years ago that was basically this. We had ping pong ball targets that could detect a laser light hitting them, and put them on a train and competitors had to hit the lit ping pong balls as they drove around the track as quickly as possible. It's surprisingly easy to do, although not trivial.
The hard part is the bit you did manually with drawing the box. Raytheon gets the big bucks for their tech that does target identification and classification. They also bring institutional knowledge related to second-of-angle precision and, if I am not mistaken, some dynamic optics to limit beam scatter. As with most engineering problems, the proof of concept is easy and the devil is in the details/refinements.
You’d be much better off with a galvo-based system. Far faster at tracking. I’d also put a dichroic beam splitter in the optical path so the camera and laser can be perfectly coaxial, though having a pair of cameras on either side would work with some software tweaks (and would allow some rangefinding). Get your chops around openCV and make us a mosquito tracker.
Even better off with an actual Iron Beam, what do you think? The point of this is - they used what they ALREADY HAD in their possession, as just some Canadian youtubers. They repurposed something you can buy in a mall. There is no point proving you can build a military-grade (whatever that means) system using military grade components. They used the app that is supplied with an off the shelf appliance - for target tracking... You missed the entire point of the video. Also: dichroic mirror in a kilowatt range beam path??? Are you even awake???
I've been waiting years to see you finish your fiber 10W 532nm ramen shift laser. All the way back to your old channel and when you where on PL forum when you first showed it off. You cant even imagine my excitement right now hearing its coming after i thought you abandoned it. After all these years it has honestly been my most anticipated video on the internet. Even to this day that 10W 532nm fiber Z fold laser video you do years ago when you first showed the project off is a video i go back to watch over and over because its just so impressive. The suspense is killing me.
They never finish projects. The Raman laser, the fusion reactor, the MHD boat, the heavy lift drone, the slow motion exploding wire detonations, etc. etc. etc., it's the most frustrating aspect of the channel. If something is promised at the end of a video, just assume it will never happen. If you want to see the operation of a real Raman laser (the only video I've ever seen of one) go to Les' Lab on here, he's got great laser related content.
You guys are always working on something fun. Piddling on random interesting things that grab me is the only thing that keeps me waking up in the morning.
There are TH-cam videos that demonstrate people who have made 'Sentry Guns' that track targets very well. These 'guns' are generally paint ball or rubber pellet guns. They can even be directed to target ANYTHING not displaying a certain 'color'. Very cool, and relatively inexpensive. I could see a 'sentry gun' using the fiber optic cable to carry the laser light for rapid target tracking. Great video !!!!!
I would love to see something along these lines but way less powerful come onto the market as a form of laser-based flyswatter. Imagine a world where you never had to worry about mosquitos or horse flies ever again.
Actually the Gates foundation or whatever it's called, tested this concept against mosquitos years ago, they had a plan to deploy it in order to eradicate malaria, if I'm remembering correctly.
There were times in History, where Independent Inventor was an occupation. In modern times this has gotten very rare and usually brilliant minds are swept up by corporations and governments. I think you are one of these Inventors and a brilliant teacher as a bonus. Thanks for your Videos.
@@Steamrick A technology startup is a greedy perversion, selling it's soul to even more greedy investors to make a quick buck from a single concept or idea. That has nothing to do with being an independent inventor, and everything to do with making a quick buck.
Century ago, inventor could make bunch of money by inventing simple things like for example an shock absorber for a car. Nowdays, inventor needs to come up with rare 1-in-million idea or simply get million dollars for R&D to get the idea to the level where it can be monetized. Look at the billion dollar companies putting tens of millions into research and it should be pretty obvious that the quick, easy inventions are a thing of the past. As a profession, without TH-cam/Patreon/etc, independent inventor is one of the most rarest professions these days. Edit. My point: it's not that corporations are "sweeping" inventors but that the competition is too advanced for one person.
I always wanted to make a mini-laser turret that targets flies in restaurants and fries their little wings off. Even better if it can wait until the fly is on a trajectory that won't make it land ballistically on someone's table before it zaps 'em.
As soon as you read off the Laser specs I immidiatly thought of styro and if he'll make a responce to this... Then you called him out! Thanks, now we are much more likely to get a response vid, and I really wanna see that haha! 😊
I've been fascinated recently with gimbals and 2-axis stabilization, like our eyes have and only quite recently in history been able to achieve for cannons on tanks and ships. Being able to do that with very heavy chunks of metal, without stepper motors, without software or transistors, is incredible. Like we see here, even with modern tech, just making software that can do things like stabilizing cameras and tracking things is really difficult
I'm still subscribed, but I've been unsubscribed from LOTS of other channels that I also love. TH-cam is absolutely removing subscribers without anyone's approval, because they have to pay you for us. God bless the TI family!
Thanks. However, it's less clear because they GET paid by advertisers who pay more, the more views a video gets. Subscriber counts have nothing direct to do with revenue.
After watching every video you’ve posted, I now have the information I need to finally build a rocket powered self guided laser missile with an awesome sound system 😄
Love your research, content, safety/morality concerns, never failing to deliver real world demonstrations. Back in the '80s, I tried pushing a 5 watt SP165 ion Argon beam into a 100 micron quartz fiber, with a parabolic refractive index to deliver a scannable beam to scanning heads located in lighting trusses to avoid lifting the entire projection system onto a 10' scaffolding tower. But, resorted to using glycerol encapsulated inside a tube, between the input lens and fiber to avoid burning the fiber. Furthermore, there was no specific focal point at the output end to allow a low divergent, scannable beam. Of course today's diode laser projectors are accomplishing the same objective. The power efficiency of modern fiber lasers and what you've just demonstrated blows my mind. "Eat your heart out, Styropyro." 🤣L😅M🙃A😂O! Happy New Year, Planters. 😎
SAFETY? Dude went DOWN RANGE!! of a DEATH RAY Bad Smell Without Clear Range Comms and Or a Lock Out Tag Out! or just pionted up? I WOULD QUIT! if I worked with him, I Would Leave if I was there! I Have done this with Others in my past who did similar about Five times? I did Not want to give a Statement or be a Witness? or smell, hear, see or taste it.
but the Facts is Facts, not the first Danger I have watched this dude DO! for years now. The first one I Recall? was a Hydrogen thing in a confined area! SAME THING RUN! "Run FASTER!"@@TheOleHermit
What a great video. Love the Goldfinger reference. With the two blue beams, it would have been very cool to overlay the Star Trek TOS sound effects of the Enterprise firing phasers.
@ntfx_org7603 What you just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent, response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this chat thread is now dumber for having read it. I award you NO points. And may god have mercy on your soil.
I love the veritety of topics you discuss and experiment with. I also love how you involve your son. He is very fortunate to have a father like you. Some of my best memories with my dad are of him and i in his garage working on something together abd him teaching me things. He built and worked on Harleys. i was alwats in the garage with him and he would teach me things and id also build my own projects with him guiding me. Its one of the best things a father can do with his kids.
That's definitely a challenge. However, the surface has to be highly reflective at multiple wavelengths because multiple wavelengths are available. Also, if there are sensors on the target, they are vulnerable.
You can modulate the laser to create a hammering effect on the target as well as pulse high frequency electricity through the ionized atmosphere the pulsed laser creates to electrocute any exposed metal on the target.
I get your point - But not if it was repeatedly rapid pulsed - it would 'tunnel' its way through an 'atmospheric anomaly - like a cloud system. (of course distance to target ... and (Artificial-Intelligence giving) mathematical predictive 'arc of travel' to it, would improve 'hit-rate'. ( instead of tracking )
Well, yeah, but any large laser system 100% already has compensation mechanisms, and it enough though, a cheap solution could peobably be found for this small one.
Yeah, his assertion that the main difficulty is the targeting is completely wrong. If anything, lasers make the targeting problem easier than before, as you can basically disregard ballistics now.
@@toma3025 Not really, software that can independantly identify a random objext from miles away, keep on target, and not randomly shoot at birds is a lot harder to do than solve the already solved problem of atmospheric interference.
@@tjpprojects7192 you can't fix atmospheric scattering. It's going to happen especially in dusty climates. And if you're in a dusty climate and you have a powerful enough laser that's going to create plasma that's going to cause even more issues for scattering.
I love your example of fantastic things can be accomplished by assembling off the shelf components in novel ways. A laser iron beam seems like one of the most complex things to creare. You showed it can be done by using complex black box devices hiding their compleities internally and provide simple interfaces.
Instead of balancing load on a slow gimbal.. laser light beam could be reflected off a mirror faster to adjust to movement tracking.. recreating Pink Floyd laser light shows would be best use of this tech though..
I would add,... when using mirrors in a 'beam-steering' application, that a Piezio-electric 'thin-film' could be used to 'smoothly' move the (directional) mirror. (obviously x2 would give X,Y axis control ) .
what can you tell us about the reliability of optical systems, mirrors, lenses. many years ago it was a discouraging factor that after only 3 shots it was necessary to replace them. it is true, the energy was of the order of megawatts. and in addition, how do such laser systems react with an atmosphere full of water vapor (dense clouds) or dust and smoke? are such systems preferable in space or with firing from low orbits? in my opinion, an illumination of the target with another infrared laser could increase the percentage of destroyed targets
Just here to add to the perception of value, both creative and practical. Along with asides that expand what to consider in other applications, from safety to expanded utility of resources. A lot like the lost mentoring, in all aspects of building things, by people with a lot of experience. Financialization made that paradigm a fatality. Blew off the experience, k8lled the jobs and sold off the assets. But, here we are. Practical knowledge is needed more now than ever. Good timing, great delivery.
For the military the laser countermeasures are very simple, miror finish on the flying weapons and smoke screen on land based equipment. Not to mention founding the light source would be very easy making it a primary target for the artillery.
I'm using one of those same 125W NUBM37 laser modules (I'm assuming your 500W claim is 500W / 4) in my handheld battery powered laser gun. I modeled it much like the Styro's, only I have added improvements to it like a single power converter, 4 cooling fans, heatsink temperature. You make me want to try a modified 500W setup now....!!!!!!
Every video is a gem. I'm sure I'm more and more qualified for some kind of watchlist with every new one I watch! (and I'm sure it applies to you guys more than us viewers!)
I might be missing something. Wouldn't a simple reflective surface totally negate the effect of rocket-targeting lasers? Like, if you want to circumvent the fancy iron beam laser, just wrap the rockets in tinfoil?
@@TechIngredients I would love to see this tested. It seems sound, but I'm not sure if air will stay transparent after surpassing some energy density. I think plasma absorbs all wavelengths.
@@caeli5532 A recent Veritasium video showcased night vision systems - and one of the tests they did was filling a dark room with fog so thick you couldn't see your own nose; infrared vision goggles saw straight through it as if it wasn't even there. This suggests an infrared laser would not even notice such camouflage around the target...
A quick observation on safety: I would not recommend the glasses style eyepro that you're wearing. Particualrly when you're having to bend over with the laser on, there is a significant risk of reflected light entering through the gaps around the edges. The goggles style eyepro that your assistant is wearing, that clamps to the face all around, is much better. I would also be wary of the amount of cardboard that is within the vicinity. Otherwise, a very engaging and well presented video. I would be interested to see you covering the topic in more detail, particularly the technical challenges that make something effective not quite so 'easy'.
Thanks for sharing your thoughts, ideas and videos. Great subject, I’ve always been impressed with the ability of lasers to find and fire on a remote target since a Ted talk I saw quite some time ago where the person talking built a system that could target, identify, and then shoot down only female mosquitoes with a laser out of a CD player. Apparently you can identify female mosquitoes based of their wing flapping frequency. Have been waiting patiently for someone to build a system that I could install in my backyard. l😂 Looking forward to seeing where your channel goes next. Wishing you and your family the best.
Sure, but a q-switched ir laser is best for that because it can thermally destroy moquitos but it is also safer to use deep ir i.e. past 1064nm so that the radiation doesn't destroy the retina in case of system fault
@@carlosferreira7757 see reply from @okay8632. Using lasers at safer levels of course. I have already seen projects like these but nothing commercial/successful yet.
Imagine another use for this tech - in a cold warehouse, use this to track your hands and point a IR lamp at each hand. This way you can work in an otherwise unheated space without your fingers falling off in winter. Edit - for the people who've never rebuilt or otherwise worked on a complex mechanism with tiny parts in a cold workshop - no, gloves are not always the answer. I really wish it was that simple.
@@C-M-E There just are these people who always think tech first. It's really weird. I keep fish and have a bunch of aquariums. Had dozens at one point. And there are people who will stick thousands of Dollars in tech to a SINGLE aquarium because they think they need it. And instead I run all my tanks "the natural way", without any filters or tech apart from the lights, just letting the same principles that apply in nature do all the work. Only spent a few hundred bucks on all tanks and they've been running without a single problem for many years. People will just complicate things with tech for the sake of it and I'll never understand that.
@@C-M-E Try working on complicated parts with gloves on. You really think I didn't think of that? You really think that there aren't millions of people worldwide rebuilding carburettors and brake calipers and such in a cold unheated space who wish to god they could do the job while wearing gloves???
@@ashex_int In the video is said that YT unsubscribe followers and don't notify new videos to the followers a knowed tatic used by YT to weak unwanted channels.
Sweet! I always wanted to make something like this, but much lower power, to use against flies & mosquitos. Of course safety would need to be given much thought. Or it could be ultrasonic with the wavelength tuned to their wing beats. Coarser directional resolution but finer frequency resolution.
Fantastic channel. So informed and so genuine, dedicated to the science and not to the clicks and likes and not pretending with overhyped dialogue. To the point.
You guys should try telescope mounts for Astro imaging, there are plenty of tracking software also available. The challenge still lies in target acquisition though. Great show both instructive and entertaining.
I refuse to believe the 1st thing people mount on the tracking mounts they get for Astro isn't a laser, followed by their telescope later that night. The Dwarflabs Dwarf 2 is the tiniest, most portable I've seen that has a dual camera system(wide & tele), daytime object tracking...all for around $500
I'm always fascinated not only by the deep and well presented demonstrations of really cool stuff, but also the seemingly endless background knowledge and access to resources.
I live in NM and about 30 miles away is a facility called High-Energy Laser Test Facility (HELSTF). They have been doing R&D for many decades out there. I had the opportunity to tour some of the facility about 20 years ago and it was amazing. They had a very large steel disc that was probably 2 foot thick that they blasted a hole into in a very short period of time (under a second if I remember correctly but I could be wrong since its been so long). That was decades ago so I wonder what they can do now. Great video as usual!
Excellent video. TH-cam hasn't been feeding me your videos, so I'll have to connect to your channel and watch what I've been missing. Keep up the great work.
Im still clinging to the hope that you will make a followup to the section of your "Super Strong Epoxy With Diamonds" video where you introduced the idea of composite ballistic barriers.
I would think the set up they use to track video of rockets, where the camera is stationary and they move a mirror instead would work well here. The mirrors would likely be a consumable, but much less mass to throw around. I feel like chrome painting the targets would be an issue though, becomes a race between heat soak and reflection/dissipation of heat then.
How could anyone not love this stuff. Doesn't get much better than your videos. One thing I notice...he's breathing like he might need to exercise more--or take some action to improve cardio health. Just my 2 cents. Wouldn't want to see anything bad happen to this. I love these videos too much!
I have watched pretty much all your videos on lasers, thanks for uploading such detailed and technical content! Wondering if it would be possible to create a video about making searchlights or flashlights using laser excited phosphors? Kyocera already has off the shelf laser modules for it.
Honestly this has to be the most underrated channel on youtube even with almost 1 mil subs
Where else can you learn about cutting edge gin brewing and then how to build a near military grade drone interception laser system ...
Scary how it all unfolds
Sssssshhhhhhh! 😉
A million already!!?
Absolutely! Its so awsome my limited english knowlage cant even describe it!
It's truly one of the finest.
Styropyro collab needs to happen, now. You said his name, the universe has begun shifting.
When I was a kid, around 12 or 13 years old, I got super into lasers. This was in the early 1990s, so access to lasers at home was pretty limited. My dad supported my desire to learn more about lasers and we acquired a He-Ne gas laser, and a power supply to run it. Built a wooden box and everything to contain it. Was a class 3a 5mW and we were super careful with where we pointed it and how we interacted around it.
All that said, the ease of access to utterly eye destroying, burn your house down, solid state laser diodes is both amazing, and scares the crap out of me. I am keenly aware of just how much even the slightest slip up in safety routines could leave you with permanent eye damage, or worse.
Glad to see you emphasizing the safety aspect of your insanely powerful laser setup. It was seriously impressive!
Suggested vids: styropyro from 4 days ago: I built a long-range LASER turret in my yard!
Bahaha! I guess you summoned him
A laser duel when 😂
"Eat your heart out styropyro"
-- I died.
Man, we expected flying cars and perpetual peace. But we got technofeudalism with intelligent robots shooting lasers.
Because we kept defending the idea of peace as a function of state/nation and capital.
Those are the causes of fuedalsim. You have to shift the authority of violence onto the shoulders of everyone, and off the shoulders of the nation state and capital... By doing excatly what we see here, and making community trading systems that dont means test and dont care about your status ones that are just there for benifit of everyone.
I naturally prefer ones that still operate on a free market I.E. money becomes a vote not a thing thats earned but whatever works should be done.
@@AnonymousAnarchist2 A free market anarchist? You mean you don't understand either anarchism or economics. Wow.
@@AnonymousAnarchist2ok stirner. Man he was just making a bittersweet joke
@@AnonymousAnarchist2 Bot?
If you're a human and expected perpetual peace, then your surprise is your fault.
Easily one of the best channels online! Always awesome to see such professional content balancing educational value and "coolness"...and of course, featuring one of the strongest lasers on TH-cam.
Truth.
"This little laser of mine, I'm gonna let it shine, let it shine, let it *SHHIIINNNE!* "
StyroPyro would like to have a word on it being one of the strongest...
Right? Who tells Drake to eat his heart out over only 500W?
Agree
Homemade shields to defeat microwave area defense?
AI laser drone point defense?
MOONSHINE?!?
What exactly is going on here?
I’m in, btw..
High-tech, high-budget doomsday prepping 😅
Dunno. Dont care. Everyone should have access to these things
Freedom. Lots of freedom going on. 😎
@@AnonymousAnarchist2transparent is a must
Most of it is available off the shelf and as open source software .
Enjoy .
“Hi. Lasers…” must be the most balls to the wall introduction for a video there is 😂
I remember when you celebrated 100k subs and now you are approaching 1million . I am very impressed with what you are doing and I am not surprised that you are achieving success. I wish you successful growth and, above all, a lot of joy in this wonderful work!
Thank you very much!
There are a number of inherent flaws in this marketing report.
Targeting and tracking in milli-seconds' refers only to initial electronic 'lock'. Iron Beam maximum effective range is limited by accuracy _and minimum effective range is limited by pivot gimbaling._
All 'testing'(sic) is gamed to only optimal range and linear constant velocity targets, the same way they gamed Patriot EKV and gamed Iron Dome. They (the latter two kinetics) can't hit Russia's zigzaging missiles, for example.
Second, Iron Beam has a huge flaw. Ordinary titanium white ceramic roof coating is one solid defense incoming small profile, and a 6-micron coat of gold makes them impervious as fly-over-and-drop.
That's why Reagan's 1985 Space-Based Lasers never deployed, and honestly, rocket scientists back then _knew_ it would never deploy. _Not ONE of the Star Wars programs ever did._
(It was Pentagon weapons technology welfare bridge, while DoD RIF'd the military vets and the vested lifers.) They're _still_ trying to make Hypersonic Space Plane work, 40 years of wasted R&D later.
Raytheon is going back to old standbys: smart-bombs with 'shoot-and-scoot GPS tailfins. The moment Iron Beam fires, the spy satellite will acquire the target, pass it to loitering stealth. F-35s and a hypersonic payload will be arcing down.
Zzzzt! Poof! Zzzzt! Poof! Look! What's that up in the sky? Is it a bird? Is it a plane! It's a GPS 2000-pound Super KABLOOEY!
I believe your channel (specifically your graphene video) appeared in my recommended videos list for the first time today. I instantly subscribed and I'm quite upset that TH-cam didn't recommend me this channel sooner. I can't wait to binge-watch the rest of your videos and see you celebrate 1 million subscribers soon!
I helped run a competition about 10 years ago that was basically this. We had ping pong ball targets that could detect a laser light hitting them, and put them on a train and competitors had to hit the lit ping pong balls as they drove around the track as quickly as possible. It's surprisingly easy to do, although not trivial.
Each of your videos is informative and entertaining. Thank you for the work and the effort you put in.
I love this channel. I must say this is the best entertainment/learning channel on TH-cam.
TechIngred: "Laser Computer, do not target humans" Laser Computer: "I am sorry TechIngred, I can't do that..."
The hard part is the bit you did manually with drawing the box. Raytheon gets the big bucks for their tech that does target identification and classification. They also bring institutional knowledge related to second-of-angle precision and, if I am not mistaken, some dynamic optics to limit beam scatter. As with most engineering problems, the proof of concept is easy and the devil is in the details/refinements.
As I said, the hard part is the software.
@@TechIngredients ChatGPT entered the chat...
@@narxic ChatGPT is Bangalore level. It's useless.
At the same time, something ~80% as capable as Raytheon's version could be had for like, idk...
@@MichaelBeale 80/20 rule
You’d be much better off with a galvo-based system. Far faster at tracking. I’d also put a dichroic beam splitter in the optical path so the camera and laser can be perfectly coaxial, though having a pair of cameras on either side would work with some software tweaks (and would allow some rangefinding). Get your chops around openCV and make us a mosquito tracker.
Range finding could also be done with a weaker secondary LIDAR laser.
@@ichbinderroboter His response to another comment seems to imply that the next video will be about adding a targeting laser
Ha ha ha, the mosquito tracker was my first idea as well :D
Even better off with an actual Iron Beam, what do you think?
The point of this is - they used what they ALREADY HAD in their possession, as just some Canadian youtubers. They repurposed something you can buy in a mall.
There is no point proving you can build a military-grade (whatever that means) system using military grade components.
They used the app that is supplied with an off the shelf appliance - for target tracking... You missed the entire point of the video.
Also: dichroic mirror in a kilowatt range beam path??? Are you even awake???
YES. Moskito tracked laser beam. Been dreaming that for a solid while now. I'd love to see it
I've been waiting years to see you finish your fiber 10W 532nm ramen shift laser. All the way back to your old channel and when you where on PL forum when you first showed it off. You cant even imagine my excitement right now hearing its coming after i thought you abandoned it. After all these years it has honestly been my most anticipated video on the internet. Even to this day that 10W 532nm fiber Z fold laser video you do years ago when you first showed the project off is a video i go back to watch over and over because its just so impressive. The suspense is killing me.
Where he found 0.5KW blue diode? 😅 2W OK 5W OK but I 500W :/
They never finish projects. The Raman laser, the fusion reactor, the MHD boat, the heavy lift drone, the slow motion exploding wire detonations, etc. etc. etc., it's the most frustrating aspect of the channel. If something is promised at the end of a video, just assume it will never happen. If you want to see the operation of a real Raman laser (the only video I've ever seen of one) go to Les' Lab on here, he's got great laser related content.
@@adredyor perhaps 64 8 watt laser in an array. but now…. how do you focus that light to a pinpoint at 10 km range. ? and maintain control.
You guys are always working on something fun. Piddling on random interesting things that grab me is the only thing that keeps me waking up in the morning.
Our pleasure!
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There are TH-cam videos that demonstrate people who have made 'Sentry Guns' that track targets very well. These 'guns' are generally paint ball or rubber pellet guns. They can even be directed to target ANYTHING not displaying a certain 'color'. Very cool, and relatively inexpensive. I could see a 'sentry gun' using the fiber optic cable to carry the laser light for rapid target tracking.
Great video !!!!!
This has a huge application against invasive hornets around beehives. I thought about this years ago. Well done.
I would love to see something along these lines but way less powerful come onto the market as a form of laser-based flyswatter. Imagine a world where you never had to worry about mosquitos or horse flies ever again.
and against people by evil governments
I need one for the mosquitos in my Florida porch.
I believe Bill Gates sponsored a similar project some years ago to eradicate mosquitos in areas where malaria was rampant.
Actually the Gates foundation or whatever it's called, tested this concept against mosquitos years ago, they had a plan to deploy it in order to eradicate malaria, if I'm remembering correctly.
There were times in History, where Independent Inventor was an occupation. In modern times this has gotten very rare and usually brilliant minds are swept up by corporations and governments.
I think you are one of these Inventors and a brilliant teacher as a bonus. Thanks for your Videos.
Or , they upset the status quo and are quickly marginalized or even disappeared by those who have an agenda to protect .
What is a technology startup if not the modern version of an independent inventor?
@@Steamrick A technology startup is a greedy perversion, selling it's soul to even more greedy investors to make a quick buck from a single concept or idea. That has nothing to do with being an independent inventor, and everything to do with making a quick buck.
Century ago, inventor could make bunch of money by inventing simple things like for example an shock absorber for a car.
Nowdays, inventor needs to come up with rare 1-in-million idea or simply get million dollars for R&D to get the idea to the level where it can be monetized. Look at the billion dollar companies putting tens of millions into research and it should be pretty obvious that the quick, easy inventions are a thing of the past. As a profession, without TH-cam/Patreon/etc, independent inventor is one of the most rarest professions these days.
Edit. My point: it's not that corporations are "sweeping" inventors but that the competition is too advanced for one person.
Believe you me, there are hundreds of independents doing this kind of work.
They're likely on someone's list, just not yours
I always wanted to make a mini-laser turret that targets flies in restaurants and fries their little wings off. Even better if it can wait until the fly is on a trajectory that won't make it land ballistically on someone's table before it zaps 'em.
Great Channel And TH-cam is censoring you cause you share real info not fake . I love this stuff I want to build one
Raytheon, founded by FDR's WW2 science advisor Vannevar Bush, means... "light of god" or "light from god".
Interesting!
could you use a lower power "guidance" laser to track the target even better?
Funny you mention that...stay tuned.
Thats how systems used to work.
@@TechIngredients How about to correct for atmospheric distortion? I guess that's a little big for a warehouse.
What a Pity with all this dilemma, this human are going backwards!...
@@imanoppressedamerican Cool story, let us know how you get on with that.
As soon as you read off the Laser specs I immidiatly thought of styro and if he'll make a responce to this... Then you called him out! Thanks, now we are much more likely to get a response vid, and I really wanna see that haha! 😊
man I hope he makes a video and a beast laser!
I've been fascinated recently with gimbals and 2-axis stabilization, like our eyes have and only quite recently in history been able to achieve for cannons on tanks and ships. Being able to do that with very heavy chunks of metal, without stepper motors, without software or transistors, is incredible. Like we see here, even with modern tech, just making software that can do things like stabilizing cameras and tracking things is really difficult
Most of the stabilisation in our vision is done in the brain rather than the eyes.
That scientist looks jacked under that uniform. Hoping he'll drop a fitness video next.
I'm still subscribed, but I've been unsubscribed from LOTS of other channels that I also love. TH-cam is absolutely removing subscribers without anyone's approval, because they have to pay you for us.
God bless the TI family!
Thanks.
However, it's less clear because they GET paid by advertisers who pay more, the more views a video gets. Subscriber counts have nothing direct to do with revenue.
After watching every video you’ve posted, I now have the information I need to finally build a rocket powered self guided laser missile with an awesome sound system 😄
Don't forget to celebrate in your almost no cost air conditioned space with a glass of moonshine
Love your research, content, safety/morality concerns, never failing to deliver real world demonstrations.
Back in the '80s, I tried pushing a 5 watt SP165 ion Argon beam into a 100 micron quartz fiber, with a parabolic refractive index to deliver a scannable beam to scanning heads located in lighting trusses to avoid lifting the entire projection system onto a 10' scaffolding tower.
But, resorted to using glycerol encapsulated inside a tube, between the input lens and fiber to avoid burning the fiber. Furthermore, there was no specific focal point at the output end to allow a low divergent, scannable beam.
Of course today's diode laser projectors are accomplishing the same objective. The power efficiency of modern fiber lasers and what you've just demonstrated blows my mind.
"Eat your heart out, Styropyro." 🤣L😅M🙃A😂O!
Happy New Year, Planters. 😎
SAFETY? Dude went DOWN RANGE!! of a DEATH RAY Bad Smell Without Clear Range Comms and Or a Lock Out Tag Out! or just pionted up? I WOULD QUIT! if I worked with him, I Would Leave if I was there! I Have done this with Others in my past who did similar about Five times? I did Not want to give a Statement or be a Witness? or smell, hear, see or taste it.
but the Facts is Facts, not the first Danger I have watched this dude DO! for years now. The first one I Recall? was a Hydrogen thing in a confined area!
SAME THING RUN! "Run FASTER!"@@TheOleHermit
Love this channel! Thanks guys! Still looking for that bubble booming thing!
This is the best reality TV show on the internet
If you've seen styropyro's latest video, you'll realise just how powerful a focused laser can be... blasts though fire brick in a split second.
What a great video. Love the Goldfinger reference. With the two blue beams, it would have been very cool to overlay the Star Trek TOS sound effects of the Enterprise firing phasers.
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@ntfx_org7603 What you just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard.
At no point in your rambling, incoherent, response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this chat thread is now dumber for having read it.
I award you NO points. And may god have mercy on your soil.
…as one does
Please guard my house from mosquitoes!
Imagine a colab between Applied Science and Tech Ingredients…
I love the veritety of topics you discuss and experiment with. I also love how you involve your son. He is very fortunate to have a father like you. Some of my best memories with my dad are of him and i in his garage working on something together abd him teaching me things. He built and worked on Harleys. i was alwats in the garage with him and he would teach me things and id also build my own projects with him guiding me. Its one of the best things a father can do with his kids.
Thanks!
Agreed.
Not only am I learning from your videos. The comments are full of great information
I remember when we were lucky to get our hands on a laser tube with .005mw... good old days.
Are you sure that's not 0.005 W or 5 mW?
@@benbaselet2026 Ah yes. Thanks for the correction. 👍
I am never ceased to be impressed beyond words with this channel.
Lasers have a major disadvantage, if the target is highly reflective then they are next to useless
That's definitely a challenge. However, the surface has to be highly reflective at multiple wavelengths because multiple wavelengths are available. Also, if there are sensors on the target, they are vulnerable.
You can modulate the laser to create a hammering effect on the target as well as pulse high frequency electricity through the ionized atmosphere the pulsed laser creates to electrocute any exposed metal on the target.
When you said 500W my jaw literally dropped. Thank you for another great video!
Quality of the videos on this channel are always top notch!!!
Atmospheric scattering reducing delivered energy is a massive part of the problem.
I get your point - But not if it was repeatedly rapid pulsed - it would 'tunnel' its way through an 'atmospheric anomaly - like a cloud system.
(of course distance to target ... and (Artificial-Intelligence giving) mathematical predictive 'arc of travel' to it, would improve 'hit-rate'. ( instead of tracking )
Well, yeah, but any large laser system 100% already has compensation mechanisms, and it enough though, a cheap solution could peobably be found for this small one.
Yeah, his assertion that the main difficulty is the targeting is completely wrong.
If anything, lasers make the targeting problem easier than before, as you can basically disregard ballistics now.
@@toma3025 Not really, software that can independantly identify a random objext from miles away, keep on target, and not randomly shoot at birds is a lot harder to do than solve the already solved problem of atmospheric interference.
@@tjpprojects7192 you can't fix atmospheric scattering. It's going to happen especially in dusty climates. And if you're in a dusty climate and you have a powerful enough laser that's going to create plasma that's going to cause even more issues for scattering.
One of the best channels, that actually try to teach!
I love your example of fantastic things can be accomplished by assembling off the shelf components in novel ways. A laser iron beam seems like one of the most complex things to creare. You showed it can be done by using complex black box devices hiding their compleities internally and provide simple interfaces.
Instead of balancing load on a slow gimbal.. laser light beam could be reflected off a mirror faster to adjust to movement tracking.. recreating Pink Floyd laser light shows would be best use of this tech though..
I would add,... when using mirrors in a 'beam-steering' application, that a Piezio-electric 'thin-film' could be used to 'smoothly' move the (directional) mirror.
(obviously x2 would give X,Y axis control )
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Galvanometers, they are called.
what can you tell us about the reliability of optical systems, mirrors, lenses. many years ago it was a discouraging factor that after only 3 shots it was necessary to replace them. it is true, the energy was of the order of megawatts. and in addition, how do such laser systems react with an atmosphere full of water vapor (dense clouds) or dust and smoke? are such systems preferable in space or with firing from low orbits? in my opinion, an illumination of the target with another infrared laser could increase the percentage of destroyed targets
Awesome! Some kind of PID control in target tracking might be useful here.
Just here to add to the perception of value, both creative and practical. Along with asides that expand what to consider in other applications, from safety to expanded utility of resources. A lot like the lost mentoring, in all aspects of building things, by people with a lot of experience. Financialization made that paradigm a fatality. Blew off the experience, k8lled the jobs and sold off the assets. But, here we are. Practical knowledge is needed more now than ever. Good timing, great delivery.
For the military the laser countermeasures are very simple, miror finish on the flying weapons and smoke screen on land based equipment. Not to mention founding the light source would be very easy making it a primary target for the artillery.
I'm using one of those same 125W NUBM37 laser modules (I'm assuming your 500W claim is 500W / 4) in my handheld battery powered laser gun. I modeled it much like the Styro's, only I have added improvements to it like a single power converter, 4 cooling fans, heatsink temperature.
You make me want to try a modified 500W setup now....!!!!!!
500 watts is insane could you imagine turning this into a IR and take down the whole line of ZOMBIES
Yeah buddy
Every video is a gem. I'm sure I'm more and more qualified for some kind of watchlist with every new one I watch! (and I'm sure it applies to you guys more than us viewers!)
I might be missing something. Wouldn't a simple reflective surface totally negate the effect of rocket-targeting lasers? Like, if you want to circumvent the fancy iron beam laser, just wrap the rockets in tinfoil?
That can help, but pulsed and multi wavelength lasers will easily burn through metal.
@@TechIngredients I would love to see this tested. It seems sound, but I'm not sure if air will stay transparent after surpassing some energy density. I think plasma absorbs all wavelengths.
@@TechIngredients hello, what will be if we will use something like fog/smoke shield around target?
@@caeli5532 A recent Veritasium video showcased night vision systems - and one of the tests they did was filling a dark room with fog so thick you couldn't see your own nose; infrared vision goggles saw straight through it as if it wasn't even there. This suggests an infrared laser would not even notice such camouflage around the target...
Correct.
Definitely fun and entertaining while at the same time educational in many ways. Thx for doing this, filming it and sharing it with us. 👍👍👍👍👍
Our pleasure!
The title of this channel should be: Tech EXCELLENCE. Thank you for your genius mind and positive nature...
It’s always a treat when Tech Ingredients drops a new video.
Great video. You NEVER disappoint! Thank you.
Great video as usual. Love the demonstration of the laser next to wooden pallets. What could go wrong?
I was looking around the warehouse and thinking the same risk thought processes...
This laser could easily be flown and triggered with a 5v RC system ..... great demonstration. takes me back to my R&D days.
_Tiny Hat:_ This laser system costs *millions* to make!
A guy with knowledge and skills: Hold my warehouse keys...
_Sorry Raytheon!_
A quick observation on safety: I would not recommend the glasses style eyepro that you're wearing. Particualrly when you're having to bend over with the laser on, there is a significant risk of reflected light entering through the gaps around the edges. The goggles style eyepro that your assistant is wearing, that clamps to the face all around, is much better. I would also be wary of the amount of cardboard that is within the vicinity.
Otherwise, a very engaging and well presented video. I would be interested to see you covering the topic in more detail, particularly the technical challenges that make something effective not quite so 'easy'.
Thanks for sharing your thoughts, ideas and videos. Great subject, I’ve always been impressed with the ability of lasers to find and fire on a remote target since a Ted talk I saw quite some time ago where the person talking built a system that could target, identify, and then shoot down only female mosquitoes with a laser out of a CD player. Apparently you can identify female mosquitoes based of their wing flapping frequency. Have been waiting patiently for someone to build a system that I could install in my backyard. l😂
Looking forward to seeing where your channel goes next. Wishing you and your family the best.
Bill Gates, is this you?
what I wouldn’t give for an operational mosquito termination system
20:28 john bolton
That guy is up to no good wherever he is.
@Tech Ingredients I suspect, the Laser shown is a collimated and focused diode-laser array.
Good guess.
This would be great for creating a mosquito-free environment. Not only in hospitals but also in people's homes.
Sure, but a q-switched ir laser is best for that because it can thermally destroy moquitos but it is also safer to use deep ir i.e. past 1064nm so that the radiation doesn't destroy the retina in case of system fault
lol, and if someone passes in midle by chance?
Okay,
Not, so.
Be careful. 1064nm laser light is very dangerous. Not only can you not see it and avoid it. It will quickly burn the rental tissue.
@@carlosferreira7757 see reply from @okay8632. Using lasers at safer levels of course. I have already seen projects like these but nothing commercial/successful yet.
You mean retinal?
Imagine another use for this tech - in a cold warehouse, use this to track your hands and point a IR lamp at each hand.
This way you can work in an otherwise unheated space without your fingers falling off in winter.
Edit - for the people who've never rebuilt or otherwise worked on a complex mechanism with tiny parts in a cold workshop - no, gloves are not always the answer. I really wish it was that simple.
I think I remember reading an article years ago about using microwaves to track people and heat them up in the same manner.
I believe they call that "Wearing Gloves" which is perfectly analog.
Complications invite complications.
@@C-M-E There just are these people who always think tech first. It's really weird.
I keep fish and have a bunch of aquariums. Had dozens at one point.
And there are people who will stick thousands of Dollars in tech to a SINGLE aquarium because they think they need it.
And instead I run all my tanks "the natural way", without any filters or tech apart from the lights, just letting the same principles that apply in nature do all the work. Only spent a few hundred bucks on all tanks and they've been running without a single problem for many years.
People will just complicate things with tech for the sake of it and I'll never understand that.
@@C-M-E Try working on complicated parts with gloves on. You really think I didn't think of that? You really think that there aren't millions of people worldwide rebuilding carburettors and brake calipers and such in a cold unheated space who wish to god they could do the job while wearing gloves???
@@delawaresacescary thought about MASERS
Great and original as always your channel is. Sad that YT censor good scientific content, ever and ever more.
The Bastages!
@@otpyrcralphpierre1742Please, what is the meaning of "bastages" ?
No one is censoring this video..... what are you talking about?????
@@ashex_int In the video is said that YT unsubscribe followers and don't notify new videos to the followers a knowed tatic used by YT to weak unwanted channels.
@@alamagordoingordo3047 It is a reference to a movie where a man cannot pronounce "Bastards". Johnny Dangerously.
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Sweet! I always wanted to make something like this, but much lower power, to use against flies & mosquitos. Of course safety would need to be given much thought.
Or it could be ultrasonic with the wavelength tuned to their wing beats. Coarser directional resolution but finer frequency resolution.
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Fantastic content. I luv them all. the ones about speakers and acoustics. Brilliant.
I loved the Goldfinger quote. Great video. Thanks
Fantastic channel. So informed and so genuine, dedicated to the science and not to the clicks and likes and not pretending with overhyped dialogue. To the point.
You guys should try telescope mounts for Astro imaging, there are plenty of tracking software also available. The challenge still lies in target acquisition though.
Great show both instructive and entertaining.
Funny you mention that.
We're working with one right now.
I refuse to believe the 1st thing people mount on the tracking mounts they get for Astro isn't a laser, followed by their telescope later that night.
The Dwarflabs Dwarf 2 is the tiniest, most portable I've seen that has a dual camera system(wide & tele), daytime object tracking...all for around $500
Without fail, one of the coolest channels on youtube. Thank you all for sharing your hard work!
Excellent research! Provides the ground for various important applications.
Thank you and happy new year! Great content as always
I'm always fascinated not only by the deep and well presented demonstrations of really cool stuff, but also the seemingly endless background knowledge and access to resources.
You will not find more in depth and yet understandable content on this platform than what this channel provides. I can literally watch all day.
I really love your channel. Thank you!!
I live in NM and about 30 miles away is a facility called High-Energy Laser Test Facility (HELSTF). They have been doing R&D for many decades out there. I had the opportunity to tour some of the facility about 20 years ago and it was amazing. They had a very large steel disc that was probably 2 foot thick that they blasted a hole into in a very short period of time (under a second if I remember correctly but I could be wrong since its been so long). That was decades ago so I wonder what they can do now. Great video as usual!
Excellent video. TH-cam hasn't been feeding me your videos, so I'll have to connect to your channel and watch what I've been missing. Keep up the great work.
Thanks for taking the initiative!
Shout out to the best science Chanel on TH-cam 😊
Wow! You've grown this channel so much!
"Eat your heart out Styropyro" made me laugh so much I had to pause to compose myself.
Im still clinging to the hope that you will make a followup to the section of your "Super Strong Epoxy With Diamonds" video where you introduced the idea of composite ballistic barriers.
I followed you for a long time this is a whole nother level well done
Very interesting yet scary at the same time. Thank you for sharing this information with us.
I've been following your projects for a while this is one that is extremely interesting to me
I would think the set up they use to track video of rockets, where the camera is stationary and they move a mirror instead would work well here. The mirrors would likely be a consumable, but much less mass to throw around. I feel like chrome painting the targets would be an issue though, becomes a race between heat soak and reflection/dissipation of heat then.
How could anyone not love this stuff. Doesn't get much better than your videos. One thing I notice...he's breathing like he might need to exercise more--or take some action to improve cardio health. Just my 2 cents. Wouldn't want to see anything bad happen to this. I love these videos too much!
Fantastic channel. Fantastic stuffs , best educational channel ever
What a brilliant channel! Thank you.
I have watched pretty much all your videos on lasers, thanks for uploading such detailed and technical content! Wondering if it would be possible to create a video about making searchlights or flashlights using laser excited phosphors? Kyocera already has off the shelf laser modules for it.
That's a good idea. I'll think about it.
Brilliant commentary and show. Thank you for the heads up on the possible misuse of laser in a combat situation in regards to humans.