I’m certain that project has been done many times in many forms, but I just wanted to add my project to the list. As I was throwing out my clutter, I found one panel of an old, fiberglass tv satellite that I hadn’t thrown out yet and I was plus throwing out a bunch of junk CD’s. that is when the view came to me to manufacture solar ray gun. I didn’t want to spend/waste alot of day, so

I didn’t cut the cd’s into smaller circles — I just hot glued the cd’s directly to the surface of the satellite panel. Since the panel is curved (parabolic?) and the cd’s are flat, but flexible, the cd’s will somewhat conform to the curve of the curved panel and focus the solar beam into a smaller pattern. For that specific panel, I was able to get a piece of w…

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