Laser scarecrows
Jan. 31st, 2019 07:46 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
unicornduke It's a thing!
I'm working on a little one (commercial ones cost tens of thousands of dollars!) that fits in a five gallon bucket. I'm working off plans made by a university researcher for public use but I'm making it better. So to have the laser part of the laser scarecrow, you need something that will shine some light. The ones we used on the actual prototype for work was three inches long and about a quarter size in diameter.
I just ordered a bunch of the robotics parts for the scarecrow and I said, oh! they've got lasers on here. Great!
I did not check sizing.
y'all, look at this tiny adorable laser!!!!
It is SO tiny and SO cute that I'm not even mad I ordered the wrong thing.
I'm working on a little one (commercial ones cost tens of thousands of dollars!) that fits in a five gallon bucket. I'm working off plans made by a university researcher for public use but I'm making it better. So to have the laser part of the laser scarecrow, you need something that will shine some light. The ones we used on the actual prototype for work was three inches long and about a quarter size in diameter.
I just ordered a bunch of the robotics parts for the scarecrow and I said, oh! they've got lasers on here. Great!
I did not check sizing.
y'all, look at this tiny adorable laser!!!!
It is SO tiny and SO cute that I'm not even mad I ordered the wrong thing.
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Date: 2019-02-01 11:49 pm (UTC)And lasers are at least something absolutely not found in nature, so there's a chance they'll stay weird.
I find myself wondering -- a quick google isn't informative -- if anyone's taken the "many birds see the earth's electromagnetic field lines, somehow" -- the little magnetic bits connect to the visual cortex -- and tried for a magnetic scarecrow; scramble the navigation system and convince them the blueberries have been planted in the Vortex of Death.
Not likely power efficient, alas.