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Build Your Own 10Mbit/sec Optical Data Link
redcliffe writes: "This website has complete plans to build a 10 megabit per second optical data link that can work over up to 1 kilometre. It uses fairly cheap components, such as standard LED's instead of laser diodes. This also makes it a lot safer to work with, i.e. you won't burn your eyes out if you accidently look into it."
You'll shoot your eyes out! You'll shoot your eyes out!
Are you implying that pigeons shit sideways?
"This also makes it a lot safer to work with, i.e. you won't burn your eyes out if you accidently look into it."
It looks as if the author has learned this first hand if the font size on the instructions is any indication.
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Reminds me of my favorite warning sticker:
Despite how effective the sticker was at reminding us to keep our goggles on, the safety people made us take it down.Jeez, if you use a soldering gun to put this together you'll end up with modern art long before you'll get a working data link. I wouldn't try it with anything more than a 30W iron.
"Prefiero morir de pie que vivir siempre arrodillado!"
From the "Making the electronics" section (emphasis mine, of course):
Solder remaining parts into the transmitter. Put the three 74HC04's in stack (like they are fucking), and solder pins of equal numbers together. The schematic follows.
Nice.