I must have this! Mosquito air defence

[ripcord]

I saw this project on indiegogo for a LiDAR aimed, LASER powered mosquito zapper. It's like a teeny tiny anti missile/drone defence system for bugs that can shoot mosquitoes out of the air up to 6 meters away. Threre is a basic version that has 3 meters range..

I'm not affiliated with this in any way... Just thought it is super cool.

Edit: for some reason it won't let me post a link.

 

[Rand]

This isnt a finished product right? no guarantee it ever ships?

 

[Pablo]

Does it have built in FOF ability?

I want

 

[earlyre]

skimmed a story about that yesterday... I'm thinking no way it works....
IIRC, the "basic" version was like $500, and the Deluxe one was around $700...
https://www.tomshardware.com/periph...e-orientation-and-body-size-in-3-milliseconds

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mosquito_laser

 

[JimPghPA]

Way too dangerous for the eyes of anyone around it.

About a year ago I saw a yt video about small flying drones destroying flying insects by chopping them up with their propellers. While that would cause insect parts to rain down below it, it would be a heck of a lot safer than any laser powerful enough to take out flying insects being used in public.

I wonder if the drone insects killer can be set up to avoid taking out insects around areas that people are in?

 

[ripcord]

Way too dangerous for the eyes of anyone around it.

About a year ago I saw a yt video about small flying drones destroying flying insects by chopping them up with their propellers. While that would cause insect parts to rain down below it, it would be a heck of a lot safer than any laser powerful enough to take out flying insects being used in public.

I wonder if the drone insects killer can be set up to avoid taking out insects around areas that people are in?

Apparently, it uses some kind of algorithm that can tell the difference between bugs and eyeballs, lol

 

[JimPghPA]

No algorithm can prevent reflected light that comes off of hitts of the insects from being a danger to human eyes.

It's the reflected light that's the problem. The direction it goes is an unpredictable crapshoot. And if the laser is powerfull enough to damage the insects it's powerfull enough to damage eyes.

No way that could ever be sold in the US, and for good reasons.

The only place an outdoor insect lased killer should ever be used is where no humans or animals are within range of reflected light.

 

[jhellwig]

A bug zapper that blinds you and only kills things in front of it?

If it could kill house flies and not blind me I would buy one.

 

[ripcord]

A bug zapper that blinds you and only kills things in front of it?

If it could kill house flies and not blind me I would buy one.

Yeah, my excitement has tapered off. I don't like being a test subject most of the time.

 

[KevinMalone]

I hope there's a styropyro version soon