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Good day,

With the help of google and knowledgeable people on this forum I have managed to slap together a crude laser pointer detection script (Thank You). The code I used can be found here.

However, I currently have a 3000mW red laser whose pointer gets picked up by the script easily around maximum 2 meters (6 feet). Beyond that I can still see the pointer on the image (diameter is smaller) but the script does not pick it up. I used an image manipulation program to get the pixels from the image. At distances greater than 2 meters the pixels are a brownish colour (#5d4c3f and #4a4031).

Either I have to hack the code or alternatively I''ll need to get a laser bright enough whose pointer can be picked up to at least 10 meters. However the only laser pointers I can get my hands on are 3000mW.

Any suggestions?

Good day,

With the help of google and knowledgeable people on this forum I have managed to slap together a crude laser pointer detection script (Thank You). The code I used can be found here.

However, I currently have a 3000mW red laser whose pointer gets picked up by the script easily around maximum 2 meters (6 feet). Beyond that I can still see the pointer on the image (diameter is smaller) but the script does not pick it up. I used an image manipulation program to get the pixels from the image. At distances greater than 2 meters the pixels are a brownish colour (#5d4c3f and #4a4031).

Either I have to hack the code or alternatively I''ll need to get a laser bright enough whose pointer can be picked up to at least 10 meters. However the only laser pointers I can get my hands on are 3000mW.

Any suggestions?

Good day,

With the help of google and knowledgeable people on this forum I have managed to slap together a crude laser pointer detection script (Thank You). The code I used can be found here.

However, I currently have a 3000mW red laser whose pointer gets picked up by the script easily around maximum 2 meters (6 feet). Beyond that I can still see the pointer on the image (diameter is smaller) but the script does not pick it up. I used an image manipulation program to get the pixels from the image. At distances greater than 2 meters the pixels are a brownish colour (#5d4c3f and #4a4031).

Either I have to hack the code or alternatively I''ll need to get a laser bright enough whose pointer can be picked up to at least 10 meters. However the only laser pointers I can get my hands on are 3000mW.

Any suggestions?

The first pic is one meter away.

You can see the laser dot against the wall near the center of the pic. That is about 4 meters away.