This Homemade 40-Watt Laser Shotgun Pops Balloons Real Good
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Says the maker, “The massive diode array is powered by a huge lithium polymer battery pack (capable up dumping 250A) and the laser array is regulated by a whopping 24 LM317 drivers.” I hope somebody reading this knows what that means. It sounds important.
Don’t try using the weapon to shoot burglars, though – it’s basically just an amped-up version of using a good magnifying glass and the sun. Still cool, though, and there’s video to prove it. I hear George Lucas watched it and claimed the balloons fired first.
h/t Gallen Dugall
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Luke Y. Thompson has been writing professionally about movies and pop-culture since 1999, and has also been an actor in some extremely cheap culty and horror movies you will probably never hear much about (he is nonetheless mostly proud of them, as he met his wife on one). As editor of The Robot's Voice since 2012, he can take the blame for the majority of the site's content, all of which he creates because he loves you very, very much. (Although he loves nachos more. Sorry.) Prior to TRV, Luke wrote for publications that include the New Times LA, Los Angeles CityBeat, E! Online, OC Weekly, Geekweek, GeekChicDaily, The L.A. Times, The Village Voice, LA Weekly, and Nerdist