Solving my Fly Problem
Added 2024-08-13 19:57:26 +0000 UTCWhat if I could make a laser to vaporize flies? It just needs an aiming system.
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Or..........go low tech and get a Bug-A-Salt pump action table salt shooting fly killer. On their website they have several models including one that has...................a laser! You can even get a bug-cam to record and relive your greatest shots. Give it to your son and let him have at it.
Thomas Scheumann
2024-08-27 12:33:41 +0000 UTCI like the idea. I was just reading today about about a brown dwarf star that is rocketing through the Milky Way at a speed of 900,000 miles per hour. Evidently the scientific community believe this star is from outside of our galaxy. The image of this object was discovered by a amateur star watcher observation. @BackYardWorlds:Planet#9 (not currently available, according to NYT article) observer listening to heavy medal music and picked up on a new object. Evidently NASA hasn't found an algorithm to replace human observation.
John Lundh
2024-08-22 04:17:26 +0000 UTCYou need to work on that maniacal laugh a bit
Blane Gardner
2024-08-18 02:50:29 +0000 UTCSign me up—I can’t tolerate flies!
Virtue Streams
2024-08-18 02:43:04 +0000 UTCJust install the laser into a laser level and place it high up. Eventually all flying things will pass by.
Terry Lawrence
2024-08-16 16:10:15 +0000 UTCWould Max wear an eye patch?
Terry Lawrence
2024-08-16 16:08:06 +0000 UTCAn eye patch would fit with the laser!
Watch Wes Work
2024-08-16 01:03:26 +0000 UTCAs another person has said, you're a hairs breadth away from a hollowed out volcano lair and a white cat 😁
David Yates
2024-08-15 18:50:09 +0000 UTCMy keyboard is nearly keyless...
Bruce Rose
2024-08-15 01:59:38 +0000 UTCOh, that whacky Goldfinger!
Bruce Rose
2024-08-15 01:55:12 +0000 UTCI’m at a loss for something to say.
Bill Scott
2024-08-14 23:07:41 +0000 UTC"No Mr. Bond, I expect you to die!"
Watch Wes Work
2024-08-14 20:42:49 +0000 UTCNo flies were harmed in the making of this video… yet!
Richard Pruen
2024-08-14 19:57:10 +0000 UTCYou'd make a great Bond baddie Wes!
Anthony deFreitas
2024-08-14 19:04:17 +0000 UTCThe next video of watch Wes work Can I do eye surgery to repair my damaged corneas
sean
2024-08-14 17:56:19 +0000 UTCThat's ok it's just the inner mad scientist trying to get out!
Richard Pruen
2024-08-14 17:30:46 +0000 UTCBrilliant!
Robert
2024-08-14 15:41:33 +0000 UTCIt was already dead.
Watch Wes Work
2024-08-14 14:43:33 +0000 UTCAwesome!!!
Greg G.
2024-08-14 12:17:34 +0000 UTCLikewise, while studying electrical and electronic engineering (30 years ago, eeek) we did a robot arm that catches ping pong balls, using a CCD 640 x 640 sensor some signal processing and a couple of FPGAs. An artificial selection system based on more correct survives less correct is dropped. Took maybe 1.5 years Interestingly, there was an analogue computer to calculate the drive needed to accelerate and then brake the arm; it was driven by a DC motor and gearbox, not stepper motors. Tech has thankfully moved on...
Richard Pruen
2024-08-14 12:13:37 +0000 UTCWatch Wes get castrated... There is too much Ouch, and YouTube would not like it.
Richard Pruen
2024-08-14 11:53:22 +0000 UTCNot sure if I can post links, but here is an instructable with code https://www.instructables.com/Auto-tracking-Water-Blaster/ It will need some modification, but easier to start from a tested working product!
Richard Pruen
2024-08-14 11:47:51 +0000 UTCSounds like you need a baiting system
Jeff Richardson
2024-08-14 11:38:08 +0000 UTCI had thought about doing something similar but with a magnetron from a microwave oven, the great thing about that is with a waveguide you can have a wide ish beam. That way the targeting only needs to be good enough.
Richard Pruen
2024-08-14 09:40:49 +0000 UTCThere was some software to fire water jets at critters, outside in the garden. It used a raspberry pi and webcam. (edit to say I replied again, Instructables link included in one of the replies to this message). You might have to modify the target acquisition parameters, so as to target flies, the stepping motor controls and everything else should work fine I would think. A set of mirrors with voice coil drivers would be better, faster to aim, and to make sure, scan the laser over a square patch, so as to allow for any movement.
Richard Pruen
2024-08-14 09:32:43 +0000 UTCFor a plague, you'd need a bunch of these :-) I'd be interested one of these "big fan with small mesh" kind of contraptions would work for flies, at least for mosquitos, there's impressive footage to be found. Dead simple, lure them with something in front of the fan, get them sucked into the mesh, apply deadly aerosol before turning off the fan (alcohol in a spray bottle for example).
Anditainment
2024-08-14 06:45:46 +0000 UTCThere is a sign like this in the laser lab: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/qngrfv9mr0o2nyo80xzjt/laser.png?rlkey=j954oxhoo0yp8tx8mumfs73d6&st=xmhsrfvs&dl=0
Tor Sjøwall
2024-08-14 06:12:34 +0000 UTCOh just hell ya!
Rick
2024-08-14 05:09:36 +0000 UTCThe obvious solution is to mount it to your forehead like a gopro camera, turn yourself into a bug murderbot.
BitterCynic
2024-08-14 05:08:26 +0000 UTCDid you use some kind of bait to get the fly to land in the DMZ? Looks like too much fun!
Jeff Chandler
2024-08-14 02:07:04 +0000 UTCWe might need some guarding.
Watch Wes Work
2024-08-14 01:53:28 +0000 UTCRight!
Watch Wes Work
2024-08-14 01:52:39 +0000 UTCYour laugh really says how much you enjoyed it. Ol deadeye.
Drew
2024-08-14 01:47:18 +0000 UTCThat's awesome but what if the fly lands on your head. I smell burning hair!
Kowyn Hibbert (Warrior of the Rusty Wrench)
2024-08-14 01:27:05 +0000 UTCI had good kill rates with those UV tube electrocuting devices for around 25 bucks from Amazon. even the ones with LEDs running on USB-C have no issues even killing hornets! but the scatter debris at least a feet and you have to shopvac daily otherwise the buildup may overload the HV circuit, rendering the devices ineffective. but bewahre, they are noisy.... https://youtu.be/2qxroMLGFkg
adorfer
2024-08-14 00:23:23 +0000 UTCA very good aiming system.
K H
2024-08-13 23:36:27 +0000 UTCInteresting!
Watch Wes Work
2024-08-13 23:36:06 +0000 UTCToo bad it's not real!
Watch Wes Work
2024-08-13 23:35:51 +0000 UTCReminds me of Allen pan’s laser bug killer. https://youtu.be/JvWHizqNjoM?si=7VsSupOHyt7A-isY
Conner Wright
2024-08-13 23:19:38 +0000 UTCAnd too many flies!
Watch Wes Work
2024-08-13 23:19:37 +0000 UTCI think that's going to blow my budget.
Watch Wes Work
2024-08-13 23:15:53 +0000 UTCThis reminded me of a very old hilarious video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSIWpFPkYrk
SA007
2024-08-13 23:10:54 +0000 UTCToo much time on your hands buddy. LOL
Darrell Hendrix
2024-08-13 22:28:38 +0000 UTCI hope it DOES use a pair of galvanometer mirrors to direct the laser! It would likely need some specialty dielectric-coated mirrors made to handle that wavelength, so they don't burn through. Much more agile than a turret system.
Callan Christensen
2024-08-13 22:07:31 +0000 UTCJust hope the aiming system doesn't point the beam at a mirrored surface! But then again, with sufficient prisms and lasers, you could create a virtual laser wall, and just watch the flies fall like, well, flies ;-)
Andrew Burton
2024-08-13 21:48:00 +0000 UTC😧 that cackle is awesome 👍🏼🤪🤣
Keith Nagaoka
2024-08-13 21:41:01 +0000 UTCCheck out "the Crap Car Colllective" on Youtube. Watch the episode about the Daimler Ferret.
Sue Rollinson
2024-08-13 20:40:32 +0000 UTCNice, the bug assalt has been a real game changer in our household "husband" tasks. I used to run in at the cry of dismay armed simply with a wimpy swatter, now I do a tactical roll and blast 10-15 shots of salt all over the room. I notice my wife now tends to investigate lint balls more thoroughly before calling in the cavalry for a full "bug" alert. My favorite is when its a dried cranberry our pet parrot has discarded in which case I just eat it to her horror.
Greg
2024-08-13 20:32:30 +0000 UTCI could, but only once...
Watch Wes Work
2024-08-13 20:31:55 +0000 UTCThat’s ace Wes,could you make it so it zaps wife’s too 😂😂
craig orford
2024-08-13 20:31:04 +0000 UTCLOL! Yeah, there's a few hazards with the prototype version!
Watch Wes Work
2024-08-13 20:22:18 +0000 UTCI need one to get rid of the mice that have taken over my shop.
Watch Wes Work
2024-08-13 20:21:48 +0000 UTCThere was a TED talk long about about lasers for killing mosquitoes. I think it was a scam.
Watch Wes Work
2024-08-13 20:21:12 +0000 UTCHmm. I can't imagine what kind of sensors were being used.
Watch Wes Work
2024-08-13 20:20:36 +0000 UTCI want one
Terry Kasprzyk
2024-08-13 20:20:10 +0000 UTCActually, those crazy contraptions that look like a small tennis racket with wires instead of strings actually work pretty well for zapping the little buggers. You should pick one or two up. Or maybe a dozen, and mount them to the end of your ceiling fan blades.
centauri61032
2024-08-13 20:19:08 +0000 UTCGood job Wes . Hope he doesn't land on a mirror .
dozerman53111
2024-08-13 20:13:09 +0000 UTCFlies today. Mosquitoes tomorrow...then one for wasps and hornets please.
Curtis Coon
2024-08-13 20:11:57 +0000 UTCCan you make a robot to kill whatever critter is stealing and eating my sweet corn, just as it comes ripe?
Sue Rollinson
2024-08-13 20:10:24 +0000 UTC🙌
James Riordan
2024-08-13 20:05:57 +0000 UTCI saw something that must have been fake that was a robotic turret aiming and killing flies. I thought of you but did not save it. If I can find it again I will link it here. I had a mosquito magnet that worked good and it was satisfying emptying a full bag of desiccated mosquitos.
Tom Hollowell
2024-08-13 20:05:49 +0000 UTCThe Signal Processing class (ME 360 10+ years ago) I took at the university of Illinois as part of my mechanical engineering degree, was taught by a professor who made exactly what you’re describing. It was one of those classes where you had to buy the textbook that was written by the professor himself. There was a whole chapter in there on shooting flies out of the sky with a laser, and how to do the analog/digital signal, processing to make it function. I wonder what happened to that textbook…
Jake & Arya
2024-08-13 20:04:57 +0000 UTCI have enough holes in my walls!
Watch Wes Work
2024-08-13 20:03:22 +0000 UTCLowered Expectations.
Watch Wes Work
2024-08-13 20:03:07 +0000 UTCYes!
Watch Wes Work
2024-08-13 20:02:57 +0000 UTCNext thing you come up with will be a rail gun
Arnold Boyd
2024-08-13 20:00:18 +0000 UTCStar Wars is real. Kinda. :D
Kevin Mast
2024-08-13 19:59:59 +0000 UTCThat would be useful at the fair this year.
Craig D Renwick
2024-08-13 19:59:55 +0000 UTC
