DIY Vomit Inducing Flashlight

Published 10/9/09 last month | Views 8,005 Weapons / Specialized Weapons
DIY Vomit Inducing Flashlight
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Ladyada demonstrates how to make your own government made $1,000,000 non-violent(?) flashlight for the much, much lower cost of $250.

From Ladyada:

"After attending a conference where the $1 million "sea-sick flashlight" (named "THE DAZZLER") was demonstrated by the US Dept. of Homeland Security, we decided to create our own version. For under $250, you can build your own dazzler and we've released the source code, schematics and PCB files to make it easy. A great Arduino project for people who really like blinking LEDs. We also added in a mode selection so you can put it into some pretty color-swirl modes, great for raves and parties!

Yes this project does indeed cause: Nausea, dizziness, headache, flash blindness, eye pain and (occasional?) vomiting! So don't use it on your friends or pets."

Watch video here. Several sample process images below.


Via boingboing

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khcb_327 last month
thats amazingly awesome! i love LEDs!
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Saurus last month
Where has DHS been? It's been known for years that strobe lights on police cars - once very popular - were known to trigger epeleptic seizures in some people, and nausea in others. This is just a simple derivation of the strobe effect.
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