{"id":753578,"date":"2013-05-28T09:41:24","date_gmt":"2013-05-28T13:41:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/techcrunch.com\/?p=823493"},"modified":"2013-05-28T09:41:24","modified_gmt":"2013-05-28T13:41:24","slug":"this-diy-super-laser-can-cut-through-a-ping-pong-ball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/753578","title":{"rendered":"This DIY Super Laser Can Cut Through A Ping Pong Ball"},"content":{"rendered":"<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" width=\"100\" height=\"70\" src=\"http:\/\/tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/05\/screen-shot-2013-05-28-at-9-46-05-am.png?w=100&#038;h=70&#038;crop=1&#038;resize=100%2C70\" class=\"attachment-tc-carousel-river-thumb wp-post-image\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2013-05-28 at 9.46.05 AM\" style=\"float: left; margin: 0 10px 7px 0;\" \/><span class='embed-youtube' style='text-align:center; display: block;'><iframe class='youtube-player' type='text\/html' width='640' height='390' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/96E0RfyL2Gc?version=3&#038;rel=1&%23038;fs=1&%23038;showsearch=0&%23038;showinfo=1&%23038;iv_load_policy=1&%23038;wmode=transparent' frameborder='0'><\/iframe><\/span>\n<p>There are few things as satisfying &#8211; and dangerous &#8211; as burning through stuff with a laser. <a  href=\"http:\/\/styropyro.com\/\">Drake Anthony AKA Styropyro<\/a> is a young man who enjoys making DIY lasers out of things, and he recently completed a 3000mW laser made from the diode of an old DLP projector that can blow out a beam so hot that it burns paper, plastic, and electric tape in seconds.<\/p>\n<p>Considering the most powerful handheld laser you can buy clocks in at <a  href=\"http:\/\/www.wickedlasers.com\/arctic\">1,400mW<\/a>, Anthony&#8217;s laser is pretty powerful. He has an <a  href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/styropyro?feature=watch\">entire YouTube channel<\/a> dedicated to his potentially-damaging efforts, although this light-saber-esque laser is probably his most impressive feat yet.<\/p>\n<p>Considering he makes is enclosures and the electronics himself and he&#8217;s still in his teens, it looks like Styropyro has a long career ahead of him training his laser cannons on enemy attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion.<\/p>\n<p><a  href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/this-insane-homemade-lightsabre-burns-straight-through-510073475\">via Giz<\/a><\/p>\n<br \/>  <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/gocomments\/tctechcrunch2011.wordpress.com\/823493\/\"><\/a> <div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/crunchgear?a=FHHnxJYgSkY:VQgjfbne2vk:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/crunchgear?i=FHHnxJYgSkY:VQgjfbne2vk:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/crunchgear?a=FHHnxJYgSkY:VQgjfbne2vk:F7zBnMyn0Lo\"><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/crunchgear?i=FHHnxJYgSkY:VQgjfbne2vk:F7zBnMyn0Lo\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/crunchgear?a=FHHnxJYgSkY:VQgjfbne2vk:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/crunchgear?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are few things as satisfying &#8211; and dangerous &#8211; as burning through stuff with a laser. Drake Anthony AKA Styropyro is a young man who enjoys making DIY lasers out of things, and he recently completed a 3000mW laser made from the diode of an old DLP projector that can blow out a beam [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":288,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-753578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-3a2u","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/753578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/288"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=753578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/753578\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=753578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=753578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=753578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}