Starbase - Handheld Laser Mk.2 with proximity trigger

The problem with first model was that you can not interact with the device once you grab it in your hands! You can’t turn it ON/OFF unless you drop it and hit the button. To mitigate this I used range finder to detect if Operator is present... Operator uses mouse wheel which by default is moving the handheld object back and forth. System has 2FA protection from accidental misfire! Mining laser can rip your ship or your mates in a second. So to start the system, you must select the laser mode on the switch (“0“ is locked, “1“ is full beam and “-1“ is blip beam to save power.) and you must press the big red button to activate the sensor. The code on the yolol chip is checking 3 parameters before it send command to laser. First it checks if the sensor is active, if the power mode is selected and at the end checks if the Operator is in range. So in general it is 3FA! ;) Now I am gonna make some weapons with the same system to see how that works.
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