Challenge a friend
to an epic battle of Egyptian-themed strategy
in Khet, the laser game. Think of it as chess with
frickin' laser beams. Unlike chess however, the
Khet game pieces start spread all over the board, in
one of three different setups. Even if you don't know what
a Pharaoh, scarab, anubis, pyramid, or sphinx is, the
rules are super easy to learn.
On your turn either
move one of your pieces one square in any direction,
or rotate it 90 degrees to change the angle
of the mirror. Strategically use
the mirrors to create a line of sight between your
sphinx and an enemy piece. Then after you make your
move, press your sphinx's head to fire its laser,
eliminating the piece it hits. Note that the sphinx cannot
be moved from its corner of the board.
It can only be rotated
to shoot the laser a different direction. The goal is to destroy
your opponent's Pharaoh, but be careful. Twisting a single piece
just a quarter turn can come back to bit you. Khet is the recipient
of several game awards, including toy the year
finalist and Mensa select.
Meaning players age nine and
up will have fun, and actually flex their brain
muscles in the process. Khet includes two
class II lasers, which are completely
eye safe, and lower powered than most
commercial laser pointers. Khet the laser game. Classic strategy
with more pew pew.
Is it possible for the laser beam to reach the moon?
Let's test that! In 3, 2, 1... Go! Imagine bothering a neighbor with this laser... Guys, I'm gonna do a magic trick... Pick a card No, even better!...
See these cards? I'll put them inside my pocket... Now I'll drink some water My God! Omg... This is the magic trick Hi guys! I'm D4rk! Welcome to another video!!! Today I bring you another laser video! Great laser! I'm not sure you can see this cause
there's a lotta light in the bedroom... But I can see a huge laser beam! I asked you people to comment your suggestions for this series The series "Is it possible...?" And you asked
"Is it possible for the laser to reach the moon?" I loved that suggestion! Loved it! We're gonna do that today, guys! Let's see if this laser beam can reach the moon What do you think, guys? Will it reach the moon? Yes or no? I think I know the answer but we're gonna try it anyway! If you're enjoying the laser series leave many likes on this video so I'll make more videos with laser I can hardly wait cause
I've got many ideas for this laser but I'm only gonna keep it up
if you really support this video It's really important! If you're not subscribed to the channel...
Guys, subscribe to this channel! And press the bell button so you won't miss a video! It's too hot in this room!... It's the spotlight! Hey spotlight! Can you stop with the heat? Let's go, guys! Let's try to answer the question Is is possible to reach the moon with a laser beam? It's 10 PM. The moon is high in the sky I saw the moon and it's almost full great for this experiment but before I point the laser to the moon we're gonna do other things in the house by night Imagine... Lighting up the pool with laser Using these laser heads by night Trying to bother a neighbor with this laser...
Like, very far away... He won't even know
where the laser came from! Or maybe he will cause this leaves a trace! But I'll try not to get caught! I'm gonna do some more cool things by night so leave your comments if you wanna see more things by night Yeah, I think it's gonna work! I'll grab the camera and let's go outside! Guys, I'm outside and
the moon is right up there! Very far up there... One of the first things I'm gonna test is lighting up the pool
Check it out... Come on 3, 2, 1...
Go - Look at this! It's all lit up!
- So cool!... It's totally blue, this pool, man! It lights up a lot! Guys, I'm gonna use this pattern that I love... It's a dotty pattern. Check it out!
Awesome! - I'm gonna point this out to the pool.
Ready?
- Yes 3, 2, 1, go! - Awesome, man!
- It lights up everything down there! Even the trees! It lights up everything! Guys, look! It lights up all the trees! Check it out! I'm gonna try another pattern What if I overlap them? It alters them, look at this! I found another great pattern I think this one will
light up everything as well Come on, guys! 3, 2, 1, Go! Check it out! It's so wide! It lights up the whole house! From down there up to here! This is great! This one doesn't light up
the pool that much... But it works! I'm gonna point it way down there! Let's go!
3, 2, 1, Go! Look! It reaches all the way down there! It's a beautiful effect! Look at this! So cool!... I'm really curious now because
this laser reaches really far... And I dunno if it reaches the moon...
Check it out 3, 2, 1, go! Look at this! It's very high! This laser reaches the sky! Looks like it's never ending! I'm gonna reach a star! Guys, can you see a star over there? I'm gonna try to touch it
3, 2, 1, go! Look! - Do you think it touched the star?
- Of course not, man!... It's too far... Man, I doubt it reaches
those houses over there! - What? Those houses?
- Yeah, those houses over there... It will reach them, it will! I'm gonna point to those houses in the background I dunno if it will get there but let's try! 3, 2, 1, Go! It actually reaches those houses! Check it out! Check it out! Don't bother your neighbors, OK? Those houses are much farther away.
And it reaches them! Guys, I'm gonna spread the beam If I open this up it will expand a lot more Let's see what happens 3, 2, 1, go ! Look at this! Check it out! It's beautiful, man! This lights up the stars! Look, Malacueca! All these particles passing through the laser! Man, is this dust in the air
or is it the laser? Guys, can you see this? - Is this in the air?
- I guess so, man, it's dirt... How is there this much dirt in the air? You can see it very well Come closer You can see the dust just perfectly! I burnt...! Just kidding! If I bring my hand closer
I can feel the heat immediately If I touch it I feel the heat right away It's a powerful laser! I'm gonna point it to the pool
to see if it still lights up 1, 2, 3! It lights up even more! This basically works as a lantern as well There's a tree even farther away... I'm gonna try to reach it 3, 2, 1, go Look at that!... It really works! I'm lighting up the tree from afar! This laser is very good! Look when I do this! - Little stars, man!
- Look at the particles! Looks like the universe
with all these stars!...
Do you think this is how stars are made?... Guys, I'm in Star Wars!... Check it out!... Picture this actually cutting, man...
I'd be one arm short... You'd be cut by now I'm curious to see that hitting the moon! Cool it, Malacueca... That's for last! Pi is in his bedroom...
I'm gonna hit him with the laser beam I'm gonna open up the laser... We're under attack, Pi! The aliens! Pi, watch out for the aliens! What's that?! It frightened me! It's a lion! Man, stop that! Pi, you can't drop that!...
This is awesome, kid! Touch that star over there! It's reaching the star! How's that?... What happens if I point this to the pool? It lights up! Wow! This is awesome! So cool! Slowly... This is dangerous... - Watch out, Pi!!! It's gonna burn!!!
- Careful, man!!! Guys, another interesting thing...
Because this is an ultraviolet light it will enhance anything that's fluorescent Check this out... I'm not sure you can see this I have a very fluorescent orange ball and I'm gonna point the laser to it 3, 2, 1, go! I'm not sure you can see this but there's an orange ball glowing down there I'm not sure it's showing on camera the ball's right here... It's quite fluorescent as we see it I guess you couldn't see it I'm gonna try to hit a person Maybe a neighbor or anyone with an open window I'm gonna try that But don't do that at home, guys It's dangerous! And it's not OK to bother your neighbors! But I'm gonna do it cause I'm the Scientist!!! And I must test my... My...
The laser! I'm searching for a house with an open window but... I can't cause it's very late Guys, there's an open window over there It's very far
I'm not sure you can see it But I'm gonna try to hit it 3, 2, 1, go! I think it reaches it! But there's no precision to it... It's too far for me to focus the laser there! I need another window, another neighbor! There's another window with the lights out
I'm pointing over there Guys, see this house? See this window?
That's where I'm gonna try to hit I hope I don't get in trouble... 3, 2, 1, Go! I hit it! What if someone's a sleep in there? Suddenly there's a laser beam in the room! Guys, there a constellation up there...
Yeah... D4rk also teaches, ya know? It's the Triangle constellation Here's one star... Another here
and another there, see? They make a triangle, huh? Triangle Constellation! I wanna find more constellations... But there aren't any It's a pity the guys went out Only Pi is home It would be great to scare the guys! But unfortunately they're not home But I'm still gonna light up the whole house! I'm gonna spread the beam some more so it will light up even more! It lights up everything, look at this! Great disco, guys!!! I'm dancing...
What am I doing, man?... Come closer... It's time to answer the question Is it possible to reach the moon with a laser beam? Let's test it! In 3, 2, 1... Go! Check it out! Is it reaching...? Do you think it touched it? No, man...
It's too far!... But looks like it did! Obviously I know the answer to this question The moon is over 380 000 km from Planet Earth So it's utterly impossible
for this laser beam to reach the moon! I believe this laser reaches up to 2 or 3 km That's very little! Now imagine 380 000 km! Do you know how much that is?
It's really far! It's like, farther away than going very far up to China... Like, millions of... What am I sayin'? I dunno! Man, it's really very far! So there's your answer, guys It's not possible to reach the moon with the laser beam Look! The laser is weakening...
The batteries are out... But even with almost no batteries
I'm gonna reach for the moon once more! Check it out! The laser is running outta batteries so it's time to end this video I hope you enjoyed it, guys! If you want to see more laser videos leave many likes on this video and subscribe to the channel Lots of new videos are coming up soon! Right here you can see a couple of
new and very funny videos! Go see them! Once more, you can subscribe below. That's it, guys! Be cool
and see you next time!!!.
Hey guys! Welcome back, thanks for joining us today on The King of Random. Today we're going to be looking at how to build your very own laser light show that is perfectly synced with the music. This is a pretty easy project that you can do with some basic supplies in a single afternoon. All the supplies we'll need is a number 10 can, some normal balloons either some small mirrors or a single mirror that you can cut into smaller pieces, some double-sided tape and a laser pointer.
Now we have all of our supplies, let's start building. First, we need our number 10 can with the top and bottom removed, so we just have a metal cylinder this particular can is full of rice So I'm gonna cut off the lid, pour off the rice into a container to save it for later and then cut off the bottom. March 21st 1996. I don't know if that's when its packaged or it's theoretically expired.
Probably packaged. I don't think it expires really. It's rice With the top and bottom cut off of our can, we want to take a balloon and stretch it over the mouth of the can. The first step is we're going to blow the balloon up almost as much as it will go.
Now it's stretched out, and we'll have an easier time fitting over the can. We want to cut it about 1/2 of the total balloon length down, not at the very widest part, but just above that. Stretching the balloon over the mouth is going to be a lot easier if you have another pair of hands to help. Once it's stretched into place, use a little bit of electrical tape around the edge to keep it from coming off.
Now if your goal is just to make yourself a miniature drum, congratulations! You're done. However, we're trying to make a laser light show. So we're not quite there yet. The next step is we need to attach about a one-inch square piece of mirror to our latex balloon.
Most types of mirrors are made from glass and it's hard to cut them, but this type is made from plastic because it's designed to be used in the shower. I guess it's protection in case it drops. Since its plastic, we're gonna see if we can cut through it and just make a piece about that size. Now that the fact that it's cracking like that gives me an idea.
I'm gonna try and score it with a knife and see if I can break it along that line, instead of using a saw. Although, that was working Alright. Here goes... Huh, well it broke.
Just not where I thought it was going to. There we go. I'm gonna try throwing this in the vise and see if that will help give me a cleaner edge to break along. There we have it, I'm just going use some sandpaper to clean at the edges There we have it.
Our one-inch square piece of mirror. Now we're just going to attach that to the centre of the balloon using some double-sided tape. Reach inside and make sure it's pressed nicely down on there. Now we know it's gonna stick, no problem.
Now with the mirror attached, we have the basis for what we're going to use to make our laser light show work. We're going to set this can up in front of a speaker and when the air waves coming out of the speaker hit the rubber, it's going to make it vibrate. The laser pointer will be shining right on the mirror and reflecting onto the wall. As the latex vibrates with the music, the pattern on the wall will move in some sort of spirograph patterns that match the vibrations of the sound we listening to.
First, let's take a little bit of electrical tape and wrap it tightly around the button so the laser pointer stays on. There are lots of options of how to keep your laser pointed nicely at your mirror, but since I had some rice, I poured some into a plate and I'll use that to hold my laser still as it points to the mirror. We know our setup works, let's try it with some music. Heh, that is great Our laser light show is working pretty well, but we want to take it to the next level so what we have here is a fog machine and then we're gonna turn off some of the lights as well.
Let's see how this works. Music Quick update, we've had a few upgrades. We've added another can in front of another speaker and instead of the one little laser that we had before, we have this brighter green laser, we have this purple laser and we also have this extremely powerful blueish green laser. [AHH!! MY EYES!! HALP!] So we're gonna get all three of those pointed at the mirrors reflecting onto the walls, and then crank up the music.
Well, I've melted a couple small holes into my balloon with my mega powerful laser, so let's get the music started before anything else goes wrong. Power already died. [RIP Blue Laser 2017 - 2017] There you go. Now you know how to take a number ten can, a balloon and a mirror to make your very own laser light show? You can get laser pointers online for surprisingly cheap.
We've got a couple links down in the description for you can get some. Thanks for joining us for this project today, and we look forward to the next one. Talk to you then. That smells kinda funny...
Man...So that powerful blue laser. I just I would miss the mirror, just a little bit while I was setting it up and it just kind of melted holes in the balloon immediately. I've got four little holes going on. I think that also messed with the sound vibration because some of the air was able to get out so it stopped moving the mirror of quite as much.
You right there. The one who just watched this video to the end. You are the reason that we work so hard to make these videos. It's for people like you.
Thank you very kindly for being as supportive as you are. You keep watching the videos and we'll keep making more..
To make a laser, all you need to do is give
a big collection of atoms enough energy so they're excited and ready to emit light. Once
one of them spontaneously emits a photon, it'll stimulate some of the others to do so,
and you get a nice cascade of illumination. But instead of letting all the light escape,
it's more powerful to trap it between two mirrors and let it to bounce back and forth
through the atoms. All that passing light will stimulate them to emit even more light,
and as long as you keep on re-exciting the atoms, they're happy to go on emitting light
forever.
But why do the atoms emit light just because
another photon passes by? It's actually pretty simple. Imagine flipping two coins:
they can either be in the same state, or in different states. But photons aren't like coins - no matter
how hard you try, you can't tell one apart from another. So in a "photon-flipping" experiment,
that means there's only one way for them to be in different states, but two ways for them
to be in the same state.
So they're more likely to be in the same state, and in general, this
implies that photons always want to be like other photons - to have the same phase, polarization,
and go in the same direction. And what's more amazing is that if a solitary
photon passes by an excited atom that could emit another photon, there's a good chance
it will emit one. Because the two photons want be together - even BEFORE the second
one exists. So once you have all these friendly photons
bouncing around between the mirrors, you can just open up a little hole at the end and
let out a blinding stream of coherent light: a laser beam.
To see lasers in action, check out this sweet
episode of "Smarter Every Day" showing a laser you can stick your hand inside! They also
have a bunch of other cool science videos. To see lasers in action, check out this episode
of showing a laser you can stick your hand inside! And if you like it, he also has a
bunch of other cool science videos..
Hey it's me, Destin. Welcome
to Smarter Every Day. So I'm in the Netherlands today and I'm hanging out with a buddy of mine
that I met through a research project. His name is Johan Kr...
- Reinink.
- That. So, anyway, Johan is a laser expert, and I've worked with him
on stuff on the Internet. So we're going to show you
how lasers work today. [Music] (Destin) So this is an
open cavity laser, and can you explain the main components
of an open cavity laser? - Here we have the laser tube, with a helium-neon gas
that amplifies the light, and we have at both ends mirrors that are
aligned to bounce the light back and forth.
- Should we fire it up?
- Definitely. [Click] (Johan) There's a 4 second delay.
It's a safety feature. - Alright. Sweet.
(Johan) Well a helium-neon laser
tube is just a glorified neon light. It's just... You have the electrical
discharge going through it, like a neon sign, And the special thing is you
have here two aperatures, and the light can bounce straight through. So at both sides of the laser tube we've
placed two high reflecting mirrors, and the light that goes through
the laser tube hits the mirror and bounces back in forth through the tube.
And each time it passes the
tube it gets amplified. You make this mirror slightly
transparent - it's 2% transparent - and each time the light passes, 2% moves out and you have,
like, a beam going on here. - Okay, so basically what comes
out the other end of the mirror is the imperfection in the mirror. If it was a perfect mirror we wouldn't
get any output from the laser, correct? - Correct.
- But because the mirrors are imperfect we do get a little lasing.
- Yep.
In this case, the laser is just
specifically made to reflect only 98%, and this is the 2% of the
light that comes out. (Destin) Alright, one thing I've
noticed is that inside the cavity the beam is much stronger. You can see the laser hitting
particles in the air. But downstream the photons that
are leaking out of the mirror...
It's not quite as strong. Is that correct?
- Yeah. The light circulating inside the
laser is far higher intensity. And if you hold your hand outside
of the laser and block the beam, you see that you catch the beam.
It looks pretty nice.
But if you hold your
hand inside the cavity, you'll block the laser from
amplifying all the light and the light won't circulate around,
and you don't have a laser anymore. (Destin) So it stops way on the other side. Even though we're stopping
it on this side of the tube, we don't get lasing on the other side. I'm waiting on photon torpedo
technology myself, so...
- I'm working on it.
- You're working on it? Excellent. But anyway, we want to
thank Johan for his time, and uh... Can you thank the
people who let us in, in Dutch? - Absolutely. (Destin) What...
Did you
just call me something? - Nee... Absolutely not.
[Both laugh] (Destin) Do you wanna get even smarter? Then check out this video by MinutePhysics. Henry explains what's going on
inside that helium-neon tube in one of his cool science videos. [Music] (Destin) We're going to do Laser Month.
Laser Month consists of a lot of videos
shot over here in Holland with Johan, Because he is a laser genius.
Can I call you a laser genius? - Definitely.
[Destin laughs] Alright, so now we're going
to play laser limbo, ready? - No.
- Why not? - It's dangerous.
- Aw, c'mon, laser limbo. Captioning in different languages welcome.
Please contact Destin if you can help..
How a Laser Works EngineerGuy Series #4 For years lasers have been a hallmark of science fiction yet much of our technology today depends on them Range finding devices, optical communications, and of course, bar code scanners. The unique characteristics of laser light make all these things possible. However, its use by eye surgeons to reattach retinas highlights them all. Injury can cause the eye's retina to peel away from the tissue supporting it.
Without rapid treatment the entire retina can become detached causing blindness. Surgeons use green laser light of nearly a single wavelength because that color passes through the eye's lens and vitreous humor without being strongly absorbed, and thus without causing damage. The laser beam then strikes the retina where the tissue strongly absorbs that light, using the high intensity light to weld the detached retina back into place. The beam's narrowness allows the surgeon to affect only the area of the retina that needs to be repaired areas as small as 30 microns.
How a laser creates light with these three characteristics is a tour de force of engineering. Let me show you. Any glow-in-the-dark toy can illustrate the basic principles of creating laser light. This glows because the zinc-copper based compound coating the inside can absorb energy from a light source and then later radiate it as light.
The light provides energy to electrons in the coating promoting them to higher energy levels. Once the light is off, these electrons slowly lose their added energy and return to their lower energy ground states. The energy lost is given off as light. A closely related phenomena lies at the heart of a laser.
Let me tell you about the engineering in the very first laser based on ruby. Here I have a tiny piece of ruby and some red colored glass beads. When I shine the blue light on the glass beads nothing much happens but shine it on the ruby and it glows red. Unlike the glow-in-the-dark ball the light appears immediately and when I shut off the blue light it disappears.
In 1960, Ted Maiman demonstrated the first laser by taking a cylinder of ruby and surrounding it with a xenon arc flash lamp used in aerial photography. An intense burst of light from the lamp initiates lasing. To see how it works let's look at what happens with a weaker lamp. A flash would promote a few electrons from the ground state to an excited state.
They'd lose a bit of energy fall to a lower energy state without emitting light and then drop from there to the ground state giving off a burst of light. The light produced would be incoherent light a spectrum of colors and intensities just as my small laser made the ruby sphere glow. To create a laser takes an extremely powerful lamp. In the ruby laser repeated flashes called pumping make something amazing happens.
They supply so much energy that a population inversion occurs Here more electrons in the energy level just above the ground state than in the ground state. Electrons from a population inversion returning to the ground state release light that starts an avalanche called stimulated emission. The photon produced when an electron decays induces other excited electrons to simultaneously decay and release nearly identical photons. That creates coherent light meaning that the crests and troughs of every light wave in the beam match up.
Now, at this point we have coherent light but not yet the other two properties of laser light. To get a narrow beam with all the light rays parallel and of a nearly single wavelength requires an addition to the ruby rod. Maiman silvered the ends to reflect the light within the ruby cylinder. He made the two ends of the rod astonishingly parallel to each other From top to bottom the distance between these two mirrors differs by no more than 200 nanometers.
Inside this resonant cavity, two things happen. First, any light rays that don't line up with the axis eventually just exit out the side of the cylinder. And the light parallel to the axis becomes intensified and narrowed in wavelength. The mirrored ends create a standing wave which means only light of particular wavelengths can exist inside the cavity.
By choosing the rod length correctly we can get the nearly single wavelength of light characteristic of a laser. A small hole in one of the mirrors or a partially silvered mirror allows the light to escape creating the familiar beam. Now, since the first Ruby laser was created lasers have become easy and cheap to manufacture. For instance this laser pointer uses a semiconductor diode to produce light.
Although many innovations and improvements have occurred since 1960 the essential principles are the same. I'm Bill Hammack, the engineer guy. This video is based on a chapter in the book Eight Amazing Engineering Stories. The chapter features more information about this subject.
Hey guys Ballparkkenan here and today
we'll be learning about lasers and how to build them. We'll be making a
weaponized laser system and a laser anti munition system. First we'll place the
multi-purpose laser. This is the main component of a laser system.
This shows
you some important things such as the lasers damage output, the amount of
energy the laser has and the AP value of the laser. Next we'll place some laser
connectors. These are used to connect the following
components, the multi-purpose laser, Laser coupler,
laser combiner, laser missile defense and the laser transceiver. With the
connectors placed, will place the laser coupler.
These take power from the laser
cavities, that will place in a second, and send it to the multi-purpose laser for
use. Each coupler makes their own laser and then they're combined in the
multi-purpose laser. For this example I'll place two but you can place as many
as you like. I placed them two bucks apart to allow for the laser pumps.
Next you
have the option of placing Q switches. You can add up to four of these and they
attach to the couplers. These make your laser firing pulses rather than in a
continuous beam. This gives your laser a small amount of time to recharge it
between pulses.
Every cue switch you add will increase the rate of fire by one, one cue
switch will make your laser fire once per second, two cue switches will make
your laser fire two times a second and so on. Next we'll place the laser cavities.
These attach to couplers and rows and store 100 units of energy each. The more
of these you have the more energy is available to your multi-purpose laser.
Which increases its damage output. You also have the option to use a single
laser cavity instead.
I can't really recommend them as you get more out of 4
pumps with each cavity and a storage cavity. The storage cavity stores 40
times the energy capacity of the regular cavities but the laser pumps can't
connect to it. With the cavities placed will place the laser pumps. There are two
versions you can place.
The laser pump and the 3 meter laser pump. The 3 meter
laser pump is just a more powerful version of the regular laser pump.
They take engine power and convert it into energy the cavities can use. The
laser pump uses 100 energy power to make 50 laser energy. The 3 meter pump uses
300 engine power to make 150 laser energy.
These attach to the top bottom
and sides of your laser cavities. You want to use just enough of them to keep
your laser charged when it's firing. If you use too many you'll waste engine power.
Which may or may not be a concern to you. Next we have the option of placing laser
to stabilizers and frequency doublers.
These are both placed in line with the
laser cavities. The laser destabilizer increases the amount of laser energy
used, which increases the amount of damage the laser can do. The downside to
this is that the laser may not be able to recharge fast enough, to keep up with
the greater energy drain. This will result in a very rapid decrease in
damage output.
To fix this you can place two, three
meter laser pumps on each cavity. If your laser pumps still can't keep up, add a
single laser pump and if that doesn't work try removing a few too destabilizers.
Another option would be reducing the number of laser combiners or munition
defense blocks. The destabilizers can be quite useful and make your laser more
space efficient. Just make sure your laser pumps can keep up with the energy
draw.
With that said I would still use as few of these as possible as the higher
damage boost they give becomes outweighed by their high energy
consumption. The frequency doubler increases the armor-piercing value of
your laser. How high this number should be is dependent on what your laser will
be shooting at. Look at the armor value of the block your laser will be shooting.
Your laser should have an AP value of 2 more than the armor value of the block.
For example, if your laser is shooting at metal blocks which have an armor value
of 15 your laser should have an AP value of 17.
This is just a recommendation and
you can get away with an AP value lower or higher than the blocks armor. Now we
can place the laser combiner. This is what weaponize the laser and is
essentially the lasers version of an advanced cannon firing piece. We won't be
able to fire laser yet as we haven't connected it to our multi-purpose laser.
Multiple combiners will divide two laser damage between them.
If your laser does
200 damage to combiners will do 100 damage apiece. You can also place a laser
color and a wavefront adjuster. The laser color gives you the ability to change
the size and color of your laser. It can be placed on the sides top bottom or
back of your laser combiner.
The wavefront adjuster trades some of your
combiners damage for a small amount of shield and smoke piercing. It connects to
the top bottom back or sides of the laser combiner. Finally we can place some laser
optics to make our laser more accurate. We can also place a laser steering
optics to give the laser a greater field of fire.
Next we'll connect our laser combiner to
our laser system. To do this you can use the laser connector or the laser transceiver. The laser
transceiver connects the lasers to other components without the need to be
physically connected. This connection can also pass through blocks.
The transceiver
can receive the laser connection from all of it's sides but can only transmit
from the top. To connect laser combiners on turrets, place the laser transceiver
in the middle of the turret block and then place one below the turret
block. With the laser combiner connected you'll
be able to fire and test your laser. Remember, if your laser is running out of
energy you'll need to either remove some or all of the laser just stabilizers add
more laser pumps or decrease the number of laser combiners.
To make a laser anti
munition system or LAMs, you will need to place the laser munition defense
block. These have a hundred and eighty degree field of view so make sure they
can see what you want them to shoot at. These are treated as combiners so the
laser damage is divided between them. You'll want to try and place as few as possible.
I'd recommend that the laser used for these do at least 250 damage per
munition defense block and have a minimum ap value of 10.
A laser below
this damage will have a hard time shooting down multiple incoming shells
and missiles. As for the number of Q. Switches you should have I prefer to use
4 Q switches as they make the laser more energy efficient. Next will need to place
some munition warners.
These detect incoming projectiles and allow your
laser defense to fire on them. You want to place at least one of these in each
direction and make sure they're connected to your vehicle's AI. With that done your laser defense system
will be able to engage enemy munitions. You can also use passive radar and
passive sonar to detect incoming missiles and torpedoes.
Although this
doesn't replace the munition warner's. Keep in mind that in order for the
passive radar to work, the missile will need to use an active radar seeker. Your laser system will now be able to
engage torpedoes. Lastly, I'd recommend having a set of batteries with an electric motor to provide extra power when the laser is used.
This will help
deal with the power spikes the laser causes. Lasers can have multiple laser
cavities spread throughout a vehicle and be linked with transceivers. This is
useful for redundancy or to make powerful lasers within vehicles that
have space constraints. If you have both a weaponized laser system and a defense
laser system, I'd recommend you have two separate multi-purpose lasers so they
aren't competing with each other over laser energy.
I hope this video gave you
a better idea of how lasers work and how to build them. If you have any questions
put them in the comments below. Thanks for watching!!.
