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Banning Lasers

author Posted by: Sebastian on date Apr 21st, 2008 | filed Filed under: Boneheads

While the Albany Times Union is busy suggesting New York State is about to mandate lasers, New South Wales is busy talking about banning them.

tag4 Responses to “Banning Lasers”

  1. Wyatt Earp Said,
    April 21st, 2008 at 9:37 pm

    This is exactly how the Clone Wars began.

  2. RedneckInNY Said,
    April 21st, 2008 at 11:27 pm

    Can’t ban lasers. I use a laser tape measure in my job duties measuring houses. Idiots, I tell ya.

  3. HTRN Said,
    April 23rd, 2008 at 1:14 pm

    You can actually build high output(200mw) lasers fairly cheap if you’re handy with a soldering iron, using laser diodes meant for use in DVD burners. You can buy the diodes new from a supply house for about $20(Future Electronics and Digikey both stock Sharp Micro’s version with “Call for Price” on em, only Digikey has the output listed wrong)

  4. HTRN Said,
    April 23rd, 2008 at 1:26 pm

    Whoops found a mistake, that Sharp Diode is for a bluray apps and is 200mw peak. Continous is in fact, “only” 105mw(still a fairly hefty output).

    Stonetek, in the meantime, sells DVD burner diodes, specifically the Sony SLD1239JL which suppposedly can be driven as high as 240mw, and cost $20.

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