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Brad
Selfish Heathen
 
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Zone of Pain
 
2009-09-27, 22:34

*BUMP*

Anyone else hacking together some projects lately? abb, how'd your bike trailer end up?

Here's my latest mini-project. I wanted to take an NES Zapper and make a laser pointer out of it. Unfortunately, I got a little scammed on Amazon and the seller sent me a cheap knock-off instead of a real Zapper. The price was cheap; so, I'm not too upset over it.




So, I had to go about painting it first after ripping the guts out.



A few dabs of soldering (and almost an hour of sweating while undoing a near-catastrophic soldering goof on the tiny laser diode driver) later, and the new guts fit like a glove!



Putting the batteries in the grip gives the otherwise lightweight hunk of plastic a little more heft.



Frickin' laser beams!!!

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