• degenerate_neutron_matter@fedia.io
    101·
    1 day ago

    If you actually want to do this, look at the NUBM44-V2 laser diode. 7 watts of output power and around $30 on eBay. Another $50 or so for a driver, heat sink, and lens and you can burn out cameras in seconds (you can also burn out your eyes so a good set of laser goggles is essential).

    • Warl0k3@lemmy.world
      29·
      1 day ago

      Also make sure your friends have laser goggles, and that nobody is anywhere downrange if you’re trying this. It takes way longer to blind a camera with these than it does to blind a human/animal, and it will turn minor vandalism charges into felonious assault.

        • Warl0k3@lemmy.world
          16·
          1 day ago

          “Heave rock at bad thing” really does cut to the primal core of the species. Thog not believe how much copper is in mammoth.

      • notabot@piefed.socialEnglish
        8·
        1 day ago

        nobody is anywhere downrange

        Reflections can also blind, so make sure no-one, including you, are uprange, or siderange (to stretch a wordform to breaking point) either.

    • kayzeekayzee@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      6·
      1 day ago

      Also worth noting that in a lot of places you’ll need a license to legally own and operate a class 4 laser like that Edit: I looked into it some more. This might only be true for commercial facilities. Idk though I’m not a lawyer

      • Tar_Alcaran@sh.itjust.works
        13·
        1 day ago

        “class 4” is just the highest class, being over 500mw. Technically, the experimental lasers they use on warships are class 4 lasers.

        Most countries don’t restrict owning them, but they do restrict selling them. When you have one, it’s kinda like owning a kitchen knife, perfectly legal, but as soon as you do dumb shit with it, thats still on you.

        And class 4 lasers make it VERY easy to do dumb shit.

      • notabot@piefed.socialEnglish
        8·
        1 day ago

        I don’t think a license is going to help you if you’re found walking around with a 7 watt laser hooked up to the relevant drive circuitry. They’re still going to presume you’re up to no good, and, when they find a camera with a burned sensor, they’re going to assume it was you. I guess the moral of this is: don’t get caught.

    • unitedwithme@lemmy.today
      3·
      1 day ago

      Probably don’t even need that much, my cheap eBay laser pointer from 20 years ago damaged one of my first smart phone cameras in a couple seconds because I aimed it directly in. It was red, too, not green. Both work though.

      I didn’t want to some in my rites so I thought the camera lens would be OK. It was indeed not OK.