{"id":27353,"date":"2016-06-29T11:46:45","date_gmt":"2016-06-29T18:46:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/terrifying-laser-bazooka-is-like-a-handheld-death-star"},"modified":"2017-06-04T10:11:12","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T17:11:12","slug":"terrifying-laser-bazooka-is-like-a-handheld-death-star","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/terrifying-laser-bazooka-is-like-a-handheld-death-star","title":{"rendered":"Terrifying Laser Bazooka Is Like a Handheld Death Star"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/terrifying-laser-bazooka-is-like-a-handheld-death-star.gif\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ah, science. <span class=\"wp-smiley emoji emoji-wink\" title=\";-)\">wink<\/span>  <\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>In the right hands, broken electronics can be turned into something useful again. But <em>useful<\/em> isn\u2019t the best way to describe <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCJYJgj7rzsn0vdR7fkgjuIA\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Drake Anthony\u2019s<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=IzUoe-9bKa0\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">200-watt laser bazooka<\/a> made from a bunch of old DLP projectors he bought off eBay. Words like incredibly dangerous, do-not-try-this-at-home, or \u201care you crazy?\u201d seem more appropriate.<\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/IzUoe-9bKa0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>For comparison, the handheld laser pointers used during PowerPoint presentations measure in at a measly 0.005-watts, while the FDA limits the lasers that most consumers can buy to a maximum power rating of 0.5-watts. That means that Drake\u2019s creation, which focuses four 50-watt lasers through a massive lens\u2014is 400 times more powerful than what the FDA will let you play with. And those rules are there for a good reason. Lasers can be deadly!<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/terrifying-laser-bazooka-is-like-a-handheld-death-star-1782815359\">http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/terrifying-laser-bazooka-is-like-a-handhe...1782815359<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ah, science. wink In the right hands, broken electronics can be turned into something useful again. But useful isn\u2019t the best way to describe Drake Anthony\u2019s 200-watt laser bazooka made from a bunch of old DLP projectors he bought off eBay. Words like incredibly dangerous, do-not-try-this-at-home, or \u201care you crazy?\u201d seem more appropriate. For comparison, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":362,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1694,1497],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-electronics","category-energy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/362"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27353"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27353\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61362,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27353\/revisions\/61362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}