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)

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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

Pluk says: Jun 18, 2012. 3:18 AM

AMAZING!!!!

Alex Mercer says: Apr 17, 2012. 12:20 AM

Purpose?

lemonie (author) in reply to Alex MercerApr 17, 2012. 12:37 PM

I scared some kids for a moment at Halloween, but you could wear it to a Sci-Fi convention (you probably get a discount for dress)

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bobby sissom says: Aug 11, 2011. 3:23 PM

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

lemonie (author) in reply to bobby sissomAug 11, 2011. 11:22 PM

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

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hayme says: Jun 27, 2011. 10:32 AM

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

DELETED_Bobbienator says: Apr 3, 2011. 5:26 AM

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lemonie (author) in reply to DELETED_BobbienatorApr 3, 2011. 5:39 AM

Yes, they're just surface-finishing.

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Dr Qui says: Mar 2, 2011. 8:28 PM

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 says: Feb 9, 2011. 1:24 PM

Bring out the "Lasers"!

NatNoBrains says: Jan 1, 2011. 10:54 AM

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

lemonie (author) in reply to NatNoBrainsJan 1, 2011. 1:19 PM

Yes, you're right on both.

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NatNoBrains in reply to lemonieJan 1, 2011. 11:55 PM

And your profile picture...

Coliopteran says: Jul 18, 2010. 10:03 PM

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 (author) in reply to ColiopteranJul 19, 2010. 1:31 PM

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 in reply to lemonieSep 8, 2010. 5:06 PM

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 (author) in reply to king kolton9Sep 11, 2010. 2:30 AM

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 in reply to lemonieSep 11, 2010. 1:16 PM

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 (author) in reply to king kolton9Sep 11, 2010. 11:47 PM

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 in reply to lemonieSep 12, 2010. 4:15 AM

exactly but what is a feeble-beam?

lemonie (author) in reply to king kolton9Sep 12, 2010. 11:53 AM

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 in reply to lemonieSep 12, 2010. 12:00 PM

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

lemonie (author) in reply to king kolton9Sep 12, 2010. 12:23 PM

Oxford English Dictonary.

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GeekBeam says: Jun 24, 2010. 1:37 PM

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 (author) in reply to GeekBeamJun 25, 2010. 2:01 PM

Yes, that is I.

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GeekBeam in reply to lemonieJun 25, 2010. 2:17 PM

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