Just as the title says. No frills or tricks. Basically, Styropyro on YouTube combined the laser units of four broken DLP projectors from eBay with a lens and a LiPo battery pack to create a 200-watt laser bazooka, 400 times more powerful than the maximum recommended limit by the US FDA. The device is so dangerous that it could blind its user without protection. Something tells me this young man will end up in prison... or working for some government agency.
Want to buy a laser pointer? Online stores offer dozens of models, though the maximum available power depends on each region. Some countries carefully regulate that aspect, while others have more freedoms. Now... do you want to make your own laser pointer? If details like size and safety aren't relevant, you could build a more dangerous unit, or throw sanity out the window and follow the path of Styropyro on YouTube, who created a laser bazooka Actually, his design reminds us of the laser weapons from Fallout 3, but that doesn't make it any less monstrous. Styropyro didn't combine a couple of pointers to make something more powerful, but his new beast reaches a chilling 200 watts.
Yes, 200 watts, when the average laser pointer sits at 50 milliwatts. The maximum limit set by the US FDA is 0.5 watts, meaning the laser bazooka is 400 times above that. As if that weren't enough, the prototype was built with spare parts, or parts extracted from other non-working devices. The four 50W laser diodes come from DLP projectors purchased via eBay. LiPo batteries, several aluminum blocks for cooling, a lens at the end of the barrel... and off to burn things. It only takes a few seconds to pierce the casing of a Dell computer. Wood, cardboard, balloons... fire.
The total energy consumption is one kilowatt, the same needed to run stoves or microwave ovens. There are no details on the exact capacity of the LiPo batteries or recharge time, however, it's enough to know that he didn't go blind during tests. In essence, what he used for protection was a modified welding mask. Honestly, I don't know if this beats the thermite launcher but we'll put both in the same category.
Styropyro on YouTube
