I have new photos of my Wicked Lasers Spyer II BX. Look inside for the still image gallery!

My batteries came today! They need several hours to charge but I managed to take a few photos and make a short video. View my post for my thoughts on this great laser.

(Photos of my Wicked Lasers: Pulsar, Nexus, Spyder II BX)

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Wow, the guys at Wicked Lasers really know how to make a cool gadget. They have managed to squeeze 60mW out of a blu-ray laser diode and fit it all in a nice little package. I would love to have one of these things! Lighting a match with a green laser is cool, but other people can do it. If you had one of these, you would make all other blu-ray pointers look like toys. Especially the home made ones.

To the best of my knowledge, Wicked Lasers is the only company that offers professionally built blu-ray pointers like this. I’ve heard some horror stories of people trying to do this themselves as well as crap that people have gotten off eBay. I have never heard of anyone managing to get 60mW though!

More photos and specs after the jump.

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Here is a gallery of Wicked Lasers Reference Series images. More after the jump.

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I wanted to show off with some detail how I operate my laser scanner. This isn’t a nice, pre-built box of any kind. Things are mostly held together with zip ties and propped up with coins and paper. Read the post for more….

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I wanted to share some great beam effects possible using only Wicked Lasers products. View the post to see more photos.

I was experimenting with using a laser as a light source for photography. The reflected beam causes unnaturally harsh shadow which are visually interesting. However, just waving the laser around the room with the shutter open yields much more interesting results:

A gallery of my open-loop scanner in use! View the post for more.