Patrick Priebe, the German laser weapons hobbyist who previously brought us such creations as the Iron Man Gauntlet and the Plasma Cutter, has gone and made something else. This time around, he’s built a proof-of-concept Laser Gatling Gun.
The aluminum-bodied gun’s spinning turret features six blue 1.4-watt Class 4 lasers, supplied by Wicked Lasers. While these won’t stop a marauding robot, they will at least pop a balloon ... as long as the turret isn’t turning too fast. A 100-mW green laser is mounted to one side, to assist in aiming.
The turret speed can be controlled using a knob on the underside of the gun, while four ball bearings keep that turret spinning relatively smoothly. The motor and aiming laser are powered by eight AA batteries, and the six blue lasers run off four parallel 18650 lithium-ions.
Since running electrical wiring to a spinning turret could prove rather difficult, the blue lasers are instead triggered by radio remote control – a transmitter is in the main body of the gun, while a receiver is in the turret.
Fortunately for pretty much everyone, the Laser Gatling Gun isn’t for sale, and Priebe won’t share the plans. It can, however, be seen in use in the video below.
When we began using neodymium doped YAG material for the laser rod we could run them a little hotter.
I've had some good jobs in my engineering career but working for a laser company in the sixties tops them all. In 1961, when I started, not very many people had even heard of a laser.
You do the Gatling scatter gun an injustice. It is great for strafing infantry.
for one, its six spinning lasers with a really cool hull.
two, even if its not realistic, its cooler than having one laser, its cooler than having six individual lasers,
three, this way he can use all of them at once.
four, you cant say shit about whether its realistic or not because a legitimate killing version of it hasnt even been invented yet.
five, its a work of art that resembles HIS PERSONAL IDEA of some sort of laser weapon, not your personal idea of some sort of laser weapon.
six, he spent a hellova lot of time and effort into smashing seven super expensive store-bought lasers into one idea and
seven, made a spitting image of something all us future weapon fanatics dream about having hidden away in some secret compartment, some laser weapon from the mind of an undercover genius such as who he is implying to be by building this. or perhaps something a soldier would use in a future war.
eight, even if in reality, making the lasers would be a bad idea, in his idea the spinning effect gave it a more consistent damage area.
nine, im sure he would have them work more so like fallout 3's gatling laser if he could but that would first off require new programming in the lasers themselves,
ten, its cool as fuck,
eleven, hes a hobbyist, if you were such a hobbyist, what would you do with seven super expensive lasers and his skill level?