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Here is the world's first BIC style laser lighter! Butane is outdated. Time to use blue burning lasers!
Watch the video and then build your own!
WARNING: This kind of laser can cause permanent damage to eyesight in less than a second. NEVER look into the beam or reflection of ANY laser including this one
Watch the video and then build your own!
WARNING: This kind of laser can cause permanent damage to eyesight in less than a second. NEVER look into the beam or reflection of ANY laser including this one
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Signing UpStep 1What You Need
1. BIC lighter. (The non-electronic, standard version) You may want to get two in case you crack the first one.
2. Blue Laser diode and mini-housing
3. Mini-driver circuit
4. (2) 1.5V button cell batteries
5. Mini Momentary switch
6. (1) 4 to 4.3 ohm resistor
7. (2) small magnets
8. Assorted wire
2. Blue Laser diode and mini-housing
3. Mini-driver circuit
4. (2) 1.5V button cell batteries
5. Mini Momentary switch
6. (1) 4 to 4.3 ohm resistor
7. (2) small magnets
8. Assorted wire
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watch that.
Regarding the parts, I believe Kip was giving ideas where you could procure the parts, if the vendor has changed what they have in stock, it isn't necessarily the responsibility of the author to check up on that. It is your job, as a consumer, to make sure you do business with a reputable company, do some research and be smart. If a company (which other commenters have made abundantly clear) has a reputation for not fulfilling orders.... don't buy from them, they won't be in business much longer if that's how they do things.
Also, I believe "cheapy" was a reference to the lighter being used, not the project as a whole.
All in all, a neat project and a great video.
Kinda like the mountain dew that glows?
Hmmmm.....
in what universe is that cheap?
$40 is not cheap consideing it costs $15 for a 500mw green laser diode or $22 for a blue diode( pointer), and $8 for a colimating lense that can be used to invert the beam so that it is useless for anything other than a flash light beyond 5 cm of the lense.
i do not consider it to be cheap.
keep in mind that the majority of people who are interested in burning lasers for fun, are ages around 12-16, and im certain few of them have bank accounts ,let alone enough money to buy the things required for this instructable, nor parents willing to use their credit cards to buy things for them online. take in these factors, and the amount of money it costs, i think Ive made my point.
though from the perspective of someone who has an income of over $200 per week, and as i stated before (i) , do not value money as much as someone whose only source of money is their $10 weekly allowance, this would be worth wile paying for.
also, yorniloc, i would actually expect it to be free, or near free.
But are you serious that only a few 12-16 year old's have a bank account?
I thought pretty much all 12 year old's had a bank account in the western world?
few 12-16 year olds know how to link their bank account with their paypal. many of my friends (17yo) , still ask me to buy stuff online for them, because they dont know how to, or think they are taking a risk, linking their paypal to their bank account.
if not that, they ask me to move some of their money, into my bank account, then into my paypal, and then into theires. i dont mind though because they give me a few bucks for doing it, though i am immediately giving them money in my paypal before thiers gets into my paypal, since it takes 4 days on average to get in there.
And i completely agree, the UK is real expensive, from what i know, you buy the same things there for 1 pound, as you do for $1 here in australia, same thing with the euro, and this is from personal experience.
$40 there is what, 25GBP?
if it were $25 i would gladly pay for it, but alas it is not :(
London is very expensive...
When I was 12 there was no Internet, but I thought most kids nowadays have debit cards anyway...
Ironically, there are MANY people out there quite a few who sell things, that dont have their paypal linked to their bank, either because they dont need to, or dont want identity theives to clean out their bank if they hack the paypal account.
In which case, like me, when they want to put money into the bank, they move it to a second account which is linked.
Its a shame you cant go and buy paypal debit cards ey!
Once again though, i am in australia, i dont know what goes around in that twisted fun fair known as america!
I prefer to pay by credit card anyway over Paypal unless its a tiny amount.
http://www.dinodirect.com/infrared-laser-module-250mw-808nm-currency-AUD.html?d=58585804
and occasionally on ebay
I'm guessing these guys are buying the parts off of amazon and selling them to you.
Search for all this on amazon. Please.