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submitted 6 months ago by to c/lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world
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Error in the text: 1000mW laser with 532nm wavelength which is green light.

1000nm light is infrared.

Cross posted in https://lemmy.ca/post/64612634

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[+] 98 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (15 children)
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  • [–] 28 points 6 months ago* (3 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 6 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (5 children)

    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

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  • [–] 13 points 6 months 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.

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  • [–] 8 points 6 months 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.

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months 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.

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