Laser Monocle Headpiece

If you've seen Star Trek TNG (or the Austin Powers trilogy) you may have though that it would be pretty cool to have a laser-beam on your head (I did). So I bought a laser and I built this:
It features a fixed magnification scope with a narrow / wide- beam illuminating laser.
Please see the video for how fun the laser is, I used a little bit of fog for it, but not much.




(I'll edit a bit at the weekend, add some more pics)

Step 1 Parts & Tools

I used:
Epoxy glue
PVA glue
Paper (Private Eye and a birthday card)
Car-body-filler (styrene-based)
Some bits I pulled off the back of a TV tube
Some bits I pulled out of a Canon B95 FAXPHONE
Various screws, bits of metal wire and plastic
A Crosman laser (IIIA)
Cheap spray-paint (black and metallic)
A pair of very cheap field-glasses^*

Fiskars scissors (good scissors)
A craft knife
Sandpaper
A junior-hacksaw

*Binoculars have prisms in them

Comments

[bobby sissom]

completely blown away,i was not expecting so much from a mask construction i personally like the earpiece the best five stars

[lemonie]

Thanks, the ear bit stops it falling off my head, it's mostly just functional.

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[hayme]

Holy crap! thats.... thats....
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So Cool!

[Bobbienator]

Hey, man, this is very cool, but you don't use real elictricity, right? only fake wires?
(sorry for my bad English)

[lemonie]

Yes, they're just surface-finishing.

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[Dr Qui]

That's more than just a comic book that's Viz that is.

If I'm not mistaken that looks like the Brown Fox from Billy the Fish.

It's not as good these days as it once was, but i still buy it mainly for Rodgers profanisaurus and the occasional Finbar Saunders.

[chrizw123]

Bring out the "Lasers"!

[NatNoBrains]

Is that you?
I imagine you as some kind of... old guy.

[lemonie]

Yes, you're right on both.

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[NatNoBrains]

And your profile picture...

[Coliopteran]

It's like a steam punk borg! "Thou shalt be assimilated." I'm sending this page to my friend Brian he is an illustrator who is really into steam punk.

[lemonie]

Not really "steam" though. I had seen it completely as Locutus from the beginning, but I couldn't get the same effect (with the bits I had) so it evolved into that.

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[king kolton9]

a laser of mine said it only goes up to two miles isent that theoretically possible if it is possible then with a burning laser make a ton of mini mirrors and angle them so that the laser has about 5 feet after it comes out and then tada 

[lemonie]

I'm not sure what you mean about the ton of mini mirrors and 5 feet.
The 2 mile bit would be the range you could see the dot at I think, in very clear air, no dust etc.

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[king kolton9]

im 11 i thought it ment that it could only go 2 miles (i have way way widder range of the therory of releitivity and other things than your more than average 11 year old should but i cant figure out that duh...) oh and by the mirrors i ment that if it could only go 2 miles why not put mirrors in so that it (the beam) bounces ad bounces decreaseing its range untill if finally bounces out and it has 4/5 feet left out of the laser

[lemonie]

OK I get it. The beam is scattered by particles in the air, eventually it's not visible. The mirrors would work I suppose, but you'd just get a feeble-beam.

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[king kolton9]

exactly but what is a feeble-beam?

[lemonie]

Right (I get my OED out) feeble; 1 weak, infirm. 2 lacking energy, force, or effectiveness.
Or "you end up with something like a cheap laser"

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[king kolton9]

OED (online edcucation degree????) (no offence if thats true but for both you and kiteman impossible)

[lemonie]

Oxford English Dictonary.



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[rymndgeekyguy]

is that you in the pic? other than that you have a cool 'Ible on your hands here, I was looking for a steampunk monocle(y'know like the one that wierd guy wore in the Atlantis movie) and found this a few pages back.

[lemonie]

Yes, that is I.

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[rymndgeekyguy]

funny, because I'm only 13 years old, and I have a sense of, well, un-suckishness shall i say.

[zygomatic]

Cool instructable. Do you have any specs for the lens you used for the beam widener?

[FishWash]

VEGETA! WH-
ok sorry. this is freakin awesome.

[rust]

 IT'S OVER NI-
:)
This is sw33t^, Lemonie. The last thing I suspected was paper mache. 

[Turtleholmes]

NE THOU- Oh man this is great! I'm going to make one o' these!

[rust]

SAND!!!!! WHA- This would look really good with my blue-striped button down shirt.

[randofo]

You have a laser on your head! That's pretty rad.

Good job.

[lemonie]

I like lasers, well doesn't everyone? (20 quid, not too bad, and US built too)

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[SasquatchKid]

Thanks for helping our failing econmey

[lemonie]

Second hand though, still I suppose someone bought a new one to replace it (the on/off switch is a bit knicky-knacky)

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[SasquatchKid]

Ok you still helped

[srilyk]

Now you need to use a green laser... also, AWESOME!

[M.C. Langer]

AWESOME!!! I love it!!!!

[n1cod3mus]

i have to say, THAT IS A LEVEL 5 BEARD!!! AMAZING!

[lemonie]

Thank you,

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[The Ideanator]

You could also try liquid latex as the base layer, that stuff is used in loads of special effects things, as a bonus, its probably alot safer than putting PVA right on your skin.

[n1cod3mus]

make it out of latex then use spirt gum to stick it to your face, thats the way they do it theatres

[lemonie]

Harder to find, and some people are allergic to latex (natural). Still a good idea.

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