Anyone had their gear die?

[astcell]

Re: Anyone had their gear die?

ASTCell and I were playing around with his insanely bright 125mw green laser at Defcon and I stupidly shot a picture while the laser was shining through the lens. When the camera would turn on, I thought for sure that the laser killed it.

I found a 500mw for about $7K. I think that would just blow a hole through your camera.

[maelstrom]

Re: Anyone had their gear die?

PM me an email address, and I'll send you a copy of the schematic and layout diagrams, so you can get it working again.

It's ok, I talked with Parallax support and it seems that the components themself are damaged. LCD won't show text in test mode and the reader won't go red with just plain 5V. I just gotta get over this hump of work then i can dump it in the x-ray machine and look for cracked traces on the board.

For green lasers you should get out candlepowerforums. You can make some pretty impressive green lasers for 40-90mw by modding cheap $40-60 laser pointers. Mostly just turning a potentiometer!

[astcell]

Re: Anyone had their gear die?

For green lasers you should get out candlepowerforums. You can make some pretty impressive green lasers for 40-90mw by modding cheap $40-60 laser pointers. Mostly just turning a potentiometer!

40-90mw? Nah, I'm never going under 100mw again. Too much fun. :>

[0x58]

Re: Anyone had their gear die?

No damaged equipment for me.

I however always get the special treatment at the Airport when I pull out two laptops. Then again my bag is filled with so much electronic wire from power supplies, and other stuff I am carrying with me (Wireless access point with a huge heatsink :P) that I don't blame them :D.

[not5150]

Re: Anyone had their gear die?

It's ok, I talked with Parallax support and it seems that the components themself are damaged. LCD won't show text in test mode and the reader won't go red with just plain 5V. I just gotta get over this hump of work then i can dump it in the x-ray machine and look for cracked traces on the board.

For green lasers you should get out candlepowerforums. You can make some pretty impressive green lasers for 40-90mw by modding cheap $40-60 laser pointers. Mostly just turning a potentiometer!

Thanks for the candlepowerforums... for LED flashlight fans there's a post in there about the WISE LED flashlight - http://www.wiseled.com/index.aspx?articleid=927

Holy moly that looks bright...

[axewater]

Re: Anyone had their gear die?

came home back in holland ... my internet connection died ... my wifi access point died, my xbox 360 died, and my data storage server died. it's so depressing i don't even want to get into the details of each of them, but it was NOT a power spike or anything coz some of the shit wasn't even connected to anything while i was away.