I’ve had some time to experiment with my new Sypder II BX and I wanted to share another video montage I’ve created. The same three lasers were used in this video as before.

This video shows a close-up for the working laser disc components, beam effects and the projected image. This is my favorite video so far. Check it out!

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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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For those of you who are not familiar, one of the best laser resources - covering everything from theory to safety, is Sam’s Laser FAQ. I have attached the table of contents here, but the document itself is huge.

From: http://www.repairfaq.org/sam/laserfaq.htm

Table of Contents….

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