Nintendo Light Gun Chandelier Zaps the Darkness Away

Why didn’t I think of this? J.J. Hendricks built this awesome chandelier out of old NES light guns. You know, the trusty old orange Duck Hunt zappers.
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When you have a huge amount of light guns in stock and they aren’t selling, you can either sigh and move on or you can build yourself a lightgun chandelier. All it took was some light guns, about 20 feet of electrical wire, 12 candelabra sockets and light bulbs.

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He had to install it in his warehouse entry way because like so many of us, J.J. has a wife who just doesn’t appreciate his geek decor, and so she didn’t want it hanging over the dining room table.

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It cost J.J. about $200 and took about 15 hours to build. Awesome. It’s like a beautiful geek star.

[via JJGames]

NES light gun gets a laser upgrade, fulfils countless childhood dreams (video)

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While it’s not the DL-44 heavy blaster we’ve been holding out for, this Nintendo Zapper is almost as cool. Using the classic Duck Hunt light gun from the original NES, the team at North Street Labs created their own laser pistol. Using a 445nm diode, some batteries, wiring and imagination, the light gun was painstakingly put together, complete with physical safety lock and custom aim-assisting heat sink. The end result is a bona fide laser shootin’ gun, capable of not only setting alight matches from a distance, but setting the curtains on fire too (probably). See it in action in the video after the break, where it also tops out their laser meter, rating it — at least — at an eyeball popping 2W. Then tap up the source to see how — for educational purposes — you could make your own.

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