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Solving my Fly Problem

🕑 Added 2024-08-13 19:57:26 +0000 UTC

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Thomas Scheumann

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.

John Lundh

I 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.

Blane Gardner

You need to work on that maniacal laugh a bit

Virtue Streams

Sign me up—I can’t tolerate flies!

Terry Lawrence

Just install the laser into a laser level and place it high up. Eventually all flying things will pass by.

Terry Lawrence

Would Max wear an eye patch?

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An eye patch would fit with the laser!

David Yates

As another person has said, you're a hairs breadth away from a hollowed out volcano lair and a white cat 😁

Bruce Rose

My keyboard is nearly keyless...

Bruce Rose

Oh, that whacky Goldfinger!

Bill Scott

I’m at a loss for something to say.

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"No Mr. Bond, I expect you to die!"

Richard Pruen

No flies were harmed in the making of this video… yet!

Anthony deFreitas

You'd make a great Bond baddie Wes!

sean

The next video of watch Wes work Can I do eye surgery to repair my damaged corneas

Richard Pruen

That's ok it's just the inner mad scientist trying to get out!

Robert

Brilliant!

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It was already dead.

Greg G.

Awesome!!!

Richard Pruen

Likewise, 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

Watch Wes get castrated... There is too much Ouch, and YouTube would not like it.

Richard Pruen

Not 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!

Jeff Richardson

Sounds like you need a baiting system

Richard Pruen

I 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

There 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.

Anditainment

For 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).

Tor Sjøwall

There is a sign like this in the laser lab: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/qngrfv9mr0o2nyo80xzjt/laser.png?rlkey=j954oxhoo0yp8tx8mumfs73d6&st=xmhsrfvs&dl=0

Rick

Oh just hell ya!

BitterCynic

The obvious solution is to mount it to your forehead like a gopro camera, turn yourself into a bug murderbot.

Jeff Chandler

Did you use some kind of bait to get the fly to land in the DMZ? Looks like too much fun!

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We might need some guarding.

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Right!

Drew

Your laugh really says how much you enjoyed it. Ol deadeye.

Kowyn Hibbert (Warrior of the Rusty Wrench)

That's awesome but what if the fly lands on your head. I smell burning hair!

adorfer

I 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

K H

A very good aiming system.

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Interesting!

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Too bad it's not real!

Conner Wright

Reminds me of Allen pan’s laser bug killer. https://youtu.be/JvWHizqNjoM?si=7VsSupOHyt7A-isY

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And too many flies!

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I think that's going to blow my budget.

SA007

This reminded me of a very old hilarious video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSIWpFPkYrk

Darrell Hendrix

Too much time on your hands buddy. LOL

Callan Christensen

I 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.

Andrew Burton

Just 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 ;-)

Keith Nagaoka

😧 that cackle is awesome 👍🏼🤪🤣

Sue Rollinson

Check out "the Crap Car Colllective" on Youtube. Watch the episode about the Daimler Ferret.

Greg

Nice, 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.

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I could, but only once...

craig orford

That’s ace Wes,could you make it so it zaps wife’s too 😂😂

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LOL! Yeah, there's a few hazards with the prototype version!

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I need one to get rid of the mice that have taken over my shop.

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There was a TED talk long about about lasers for killing mosquitoes. I think it was a scam.

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Hmm. I can't imagine what kind of sensors were being used.

Terry Kasprzyk

I want one

centauri61032

Actually, 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.

dozerman53111

Good job Wes . Hope he doesn't land on a mirror .

Curtis Coon

Flies today. Mosquitoes tomorrow...then one for wasps and hornets please.

Sue Rollinson

Can you make a robot to kill whatever critter is stealing and eating my sweet corn, just as it comes ripe?

James Riordan

🙌

Tom Hollowell

I 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.

Jake & Arya

The 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…