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How To Turn a Mini Maglite Into a Laser
Lucas123 writes "Using the laser from a DVD burner, this instructional video shows you how to create a hand-held laser that is powerful enough to light a match and pop a balloon. There's some soldering involved and the Maglite's bulb housing needs to be drilled out to fit the new laser diode, but with some basic skill, most people could do this. Just plain cool." Update: 07/09 12:23 GMT by KD : Warning, the device that results from following these instructions will blind you if you look into it.
Know what I'm doing this weekend :) now if only this could be modified for Laser tag
Yes, thank you for repeating the article summary.
It's always a long day... 86400 doesn't fit into a short.
Now when I go to the movies, instead of worrying about Brad Pitt having a red dot on his face, I have to worry about the screen igniting. Good times.
In the words of Rainier Wolfcastle:
My eyes! The goggles do nothing!
So where did I put those frikin sharks?
Ok, so where do I get the shark ? and where is the manual on how to mount it on the shark ?
"Do not look into Laser with remaining eye!"
"To those who are overly cautious, everything is impossible. "
Nope. None of those things.
Articles about making lasers? Yes! Yes! It can light things on fire too?
Excuse me. I think I may have just wet my pants.
Custom, hands-free Linux installs. Instalinux
"Is that necessary? Is it just a metal tube or does it serve a more substantial purpose."
Yes.
Now do you understand why they don't allow optical media writers in your carry-ons?
Next week...how to turn a laser into a repeating rifle - all part of our DIY Firearms Convergence Series, here on the 'Defending the Homefront' Channel. Brought to you by 'Ahmed's Security Stuff' - at ASS, we pick up on the first ring!
How funny, I was reading this post and happened to see this at exactly the same time:
"Bureaucrat Conrad, you are technically correct. The best kind of correct."
I feel a great disturbance in the internets. Like a thousand LG drives cried out in pain and were suddenly silenced. ...
Join the dark side, hack your mini-mag. Seriously sweet.
There's going to be a lot of blind hackers in the next couple of weeks. If you're smart, you'll figure out how to wrangle this as workmans comp before you build the thing.
I like music
I for one welcome our new mag-lite-bearing-sith-overlords... you jedi scum can leave... these aren't the lasers your looking for...
Hey look... I just butchered a movie script...
Me failed English...
FreeBSD over Linux. If my comments seem odd, this may explain...
I see you have constructed a new lightsaber. Your skills are complete, indeed you are powerful as the emperor has foreseen. - Darth Vader
Sorry about the writing. Robot fingers, you know? Cliff Steele in DOOM PATROL #23
Is that a strange way of pronouncing 'soldering'?
"Nine times out of ten, starting a fire is not the best way to solve the problem." - my wife
You can get green lasers very cheaply on eBay. Oddly enough I was looking for one last night, and spotted some for less than £15 GB (or about $150 US).
Think of (all?) the people who now have a good use for their BluRay players. ;P
Yeah, but now you can put it on sharks!
At least they're not moving it into a fleshlight case
You're not the boss of me. I hate you! I hate you! God, my family sucks.
Oh, sorry. I was channeling a 14 year old emo girl for a minute.
It's not offtopic, dumbass. It's orthogonal.
MY EYES! The googles do nothing!
"Things are more moderner than before- bigger, and yet smaller- it's computers-- San Dimas High School football RULES!"
Pepper spray? My balls! Nothing to teach an assailant a lesson like losing vision in one eye.
actually the one thing I am VERY interested in is if can produce enough pinpoint heat to start a flammable liquid on fire from a distance...oh.. I think I just came.
"Thank you for using Stop-n-Drop, America's favorite suicide booth since 2008"
Please remember not to look at them with your remaining eye
Oolite: Elite-like game. For Mac, Linux and Windows
It's all fun and game 'til someone loses an eye.
Then it gets awesome.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
Pfft, it's "just plain cool" - ain't no way it can be unsafe!
/. - how to convert your BB gun to fire 9mm rounds!
Next week on
which is totally what she said
Now it makes sense. Maglite cases are waterproof - I always wondered how a laser would yield a warm meal for a shark or mutant sea bass.
If I wet the bed, I'm sending you the laundry bill.
You are welcome on my lawn.
Hello. My name is 'Hank'. I am ordinary American boy. I have question please. How many of these does it take to bring down aircraft? Please answer soon. I must know before I go to daily prayers. Please reply to: "Hank American Boy". Also please supply quotes for 1000 DVD drives and 2000 batteries. Ready to pay in dinar. Ooops. I mean dollar. Hahaha. I make funny. Dollar. Not dinar.
Hello Hank. DVD players and batteries can be purchased more cheaply and discretely in volume from China. Please direct your questions there. You will also find that China's energy policies make it easier to pay in dinar if you wish. You will also find that America is about to put DVDs on the restricted export list along with PS2s and common encryption.
If you are caught taking a portable DVD player across a national border you will be arrested and tried as a terrorist. It is unclear whether this will apply to CD players as well, but better throw that out too, just to be on the safe side. BlueRay players have been classified as WMDs, so if you're a foreign government, you better stay friendly with the US if you want to watch The Matrix in high definition without being declared a rogue state and invaded.
Yours truly,
John.
I hate printers.
Bush: We've go to do something to get rid of all those dangerous hackers.
Vader: Perhaps we could post a video showing them how to make a dangerous weapon that they would accidentally use on themselves.
Jobs: Hmmm... there's a dangerous laser in DVD burners.
Gates: Yeah, let's hope that works better than your plan to make them all deaf with your stupid iPod, or get them run over walking across the street, playing with their iPhone.
Place nail here >+
Oh yeah? How much does it cost to hang the sheets out on the line to dry?
sigs are hazardous to your health
The editors cannot change the article as they have killed themselves with their new maglite lasers....
"All great things are simple & expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope." --Churchill
Is anyone else having trouble seeing after watching the video?
Do not meddle in the affairs of lasers, for you are soft and absorptive.
Pussy.
I've got one sitting right here on my desk, and I can shine it in to my eyes with absolutely no problems. Allow me to demonstrate...
Srr?
Sbao;utelu ni orpbkens,
hang brain.
Your idea of cleaning piss stains off of sheets is hanging the sheets out to dry? I think you misunderstood what your mom meant when she said she liked having crisp sheets on the bed.
...sometimes, in order to hurt someone very badly, you have to tell that person terrible lies. - PA
No problem. He just need to wait until a reply gets modded up +5 Informative. That's a sure way to guarantee that anything posted on Slashdot will be accurate, with correct precision, and not be filled with crackpot theories, right?
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You're blatantly a bus driver aren't you... Taunted and traumatized by Kids on your bus. Blinded with their home made laser beams. Made bitter by the Police's unwillingness to help. You're a perfect candidate for vigilanteism. Drive a Taxi instead...
You feel sleepy. Close your eyes. The opinions stated above are yours. You cannot imagine why you ever felt otherwise.
This is a very dangerous toy
IT WILL BLIND YOU IMMEDIATELY
Humbug! All my life they have been telling me masturbation does the same exact thing.
- RG>
Hey pal, this isn't a pleasantforest, so don't waste my time with pleasantries!
Actually, if the little turds use one of these modified pointers, you can easily find and pound their asses.
Jacking up the power like this make the ENTIRE BEAM visible, not just the point.
I still want a laser powerful enough to deface bumper stickers and write insults into the paint on cars...
Visible means little when you're blind.
Why is seeking revenge counter to improving society in your mind?
Sure revenge has gotten a bad rap but I do believe it could be done right if it was redesigned.
Mac OS X and Windows XP working side by side to fight back the night.
My eyes! The goggles, they do nothing!
informative?
Funny, mayhaps. But informative? No.
God have mercy on their heathen souls.
Faster! Faster! Faster would be better!
All you have to do is watch it through a fish tank. If a beam comes back at you, it would just difuse or refract in the watter. There is a bonus if it hits the fish.
[ Oblig ] " The goggles, they do nothing! "
:b
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== WolfriderV6 == I'm willing to admit that *I just might* be wrong... Are you??
Just hit 'em with a hammer!
SAFETY WARNING: Don't hit bullets with hammers!!
SECOND SAFETY WARNING: Because hitting a bullet with a hammer can cause it to explode!!
THIRD SAFETY WARNING: A bullet moves very fast and can kill or injure anything in its path!!!
FOURTH SAFETY WARNING: YOU COULD EVEN YOUR EYE OUT DOING THIS!
Give a man a fish and you have fed him for today. Teach a man to fish, and he'll say "WHERE'S MY FISH, YOU IDIOT?"
Hmm...we could even come up with a catchy way to say it...maybe...
"An eye for an eye."
Procrastination -- because good things come to those who wait.
Permanent blindness is going to hurt you far more than missing out on revenge on lowlife scum.
Personally, I find it rather difficult to miss out on revenge whilst peering through a 10x scope. But that's just me, I suppose.
Visible means little when you're blind.
Warning: Do not look into LASER with remaining eye.
Bantam Dominique roosters crow a four-note song. Once you've heard it as "Happy BIRTHday" you can't NOT hear it that way