My new favorite toy

[EQnoble]

This is what I just finished building.

Can you guess what it is and what it is used for?

 

[Itworx4me]

Looks like a Sex Toy gone wrong.....lmao

 

[EQnoble]

/me <facepalms>


edit:
(I did laugh however because I halfway expected that at some point in this thread)

 

[dutchbb]

Wild guess: a laser pen for transmitting audio?

 

[Dean]

At first glance it appears to be a flashlight, but I suspect it is more complicated than that.

 

[Trombones13]

*votes for taser, even if it doesn't look remotely possible with that setup...not that I know anything about them*

 

[Blandt]

a pen that uses wax of some sort ? !

 

[EQnoble]

Wild guess: a laser pen for transmitting audio?

You are right on track, but it sends a signal which is collected on another diode and processed by my pc sound card in order to complete it's mission.

Now a laser is another one of my projects actually a cnc laser cutter to be precise but we'll get into that some other time

At first glance it appears to be a flashlight, but I suspect it is more complicated than that.

It is a "flashlight (penlight actually seeing as that clear tube is actually a disassembled kaleidoscope pen I had in a box-o-crap from years ago.)" of sorts with a specific purpose having nothing to do with illumination, and you are correct this is only one third of it, though if I posted the other factors it would give it away.

*votes for taser, even if it doesn't look remotely possible with that setup...not that I know anything about them*

HA! have built one of those, safer and for the leisurely hackster cheaper to buy one

 

[Dean]

Sonic screwdriver?

 

[EQnoble]

Sonic screwdriver?

LMAO
Think non visible light from the electromagnetic spectrum

edit: clue
wavelength 980nm

 

[EQnoble]

http://www.ski.org/Vision/Basics/visualspectrum.html

 

[D37]

A Ir signal blur

 

[EQnoble]

A Ir signal blur

That is exactly what this produces, a blurry diffuse disc of infrared emittance ...
Now for the hard part, what am I using this for?

 

[Blandt]

Now for the hard part, what am I using this for?

drive your wife mad

 

[EQnoble]

drive your wife mad

Lucky for the non-existent wife of mine that she doesn't exist

I'm sure if she did though I would have already driven her bat-chit crazy

 

[D37]

That is exactly what this produces, a blurry diffuse disc of infrared emittance ...
Now for the hard part, what am I using this for?

Thermal image synthesis ?

 

[Carlos]

A pen that guides you on how to draw better?

 

[Kim]

To plan on a map, your missions to Apple orchards?