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Since you can’t walk into to your favorite weapons store and pick up a phaser just yet, hacker Luke decided to build his own. He picked up a toy phaser from Amazon for about $20 ripped out the internals only choosing to reuse the trigger, top switch and battery pack.

The phaser contains two laser diodes which were pulled from a 6x BD-R burner. I sure hope that the burner was broken since purchasing a unit just for the sake of pulling the diodes out to put in a toy gun is very expensive. The two diodes are mounted on a swiveling carriage which can be turned 180 degrees to switch between the diodes. A boost driver is used to bump up the 3v that the batteries provide to 7v to drive the diodes.

Although you won’t be killing Kingons with this unit it does make one cool looking toy. Remember, don’t go firing it in peoples eyes, that will hurt. Check out the video after the break.

Phaser Boasts 300mW Laser originally appeared on tech.nocr.at on 2009/10/26. Reproduction of content not allowed without consent.

Captian Kirk’s Chair

Frank — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 20:36:44 +0000

Need to assert some authority over your bridge, or if you don’t happen to own a Constitution Class starship you could also assert some authority over your living room with this Captain’s chair straight out of the original Star Trek series.

It looks remarkably similar to the original prop from the ’60s TV series. The makers have outfitted the chair with some authentic sound effects and blinking lights, it even comes with some sampled dialog you can play back. Now if it only had a button to order phasers set to kill so that you can wipe out those annoying friends who come over and stay to long.

No details on pricing but we do know it should be available sometime in 09.

Captian Kirk’s Chair originally appeared on tech.nocr.at on 2008/08/18. Reproduction of content not allowed without consent.

DIY: Blu-Ray Laser Phaser

Frank — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 20:36:37 +0000

If your a geek then you must have loved the old classic Trek episodes, the one’s with the red shirts that never made it, and what about those over sized phasers (compared to the later Trek series). Well, now thanks to Kip Kay you too can have a cool looking Star Trek phaser that emits a blue laser. By using a classic Trek toy phaser, a blu-ray dvd player diode, a resistor and switch he was able to slap together a phaser that actually fires off a blu(e)-ray.

As always kids, if you want to do this then don’t point the laser into your friends eyes. You could blind him and then be left to read to him comic books for the rest of your life.

DIY: Blu-Ray Laser Phaser originally appeared on tech.nocr.at on 2008/08/14. Reproduction of content not allowed without consent.

Star Trek Phaser to Control your HD DVD player

Frank — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

There’s a special offer going on right not where each purchase of a Toshiba HD DVD player will come with an original Star Trek phaser remote control. I can see all of the trekies right now debating on who will be the first alien character that they will phase.

There’s no official photo’s yet of the device, but I’m sure there will be endless discussions online as to it’s authenticity. Trekies world wide will begin the never ending battle as to which generations phaser is better and so on.

I just wish, no matter what it looks like, that I could set it to stun while I’m stuck in traffic. That would greatly improve my drive into the office.

Star Trek Phaser to Control your HD DVD player originally appeared on tech.nocr.at on 1999/11/29. Reproduction of content not allowed without consent.