• yesman@lemmy.world
    1381·
    3 days ago

    I know that Xwitter is usually a reliable source, but 1000nm is outside visual range and therefore not green. Green lasers in the ~500nm range will absolutely damage a camera sensor, but you’ll need good aim and sustained illumination.

    • degenerate_neutron_matter@fedia.io
      101·
      3 days 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·
        3 days 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·
            3 days 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·
          3 days 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·
        3 days 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·
          3 days 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·
          3 days 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·
        3 days 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.

    • TheTechnician27@lemmy.worldEnglish
      23·
      3 days ago

      They ostensibly meant mW rather than “nm wavelength” based on the image, but they might not be the brightest laser in the activist’s pocket.

      Edit:

      Jason Bassler is co-founder of The Free Thought Project and has been featured in such publications as Rolling Stone, Reason, Infowars, RT, MIC and The Tom Woods Show.

      Checks out.

    • dual_sport_dork 🐧🗡️@lemmy.worldEnglish
      11·
      3 days ago

      535nm for most/all of my greens.

      I do have one of the old 1000mw Wicked Laser blues as well, however, which I think is 445nm.

      Oh yeah. And my engraver is 100 watts of infrared (1084nm?), not milliwatts, although the range is probably a bit crap for this sort of thing and it’s not exactly concealable. You’d also want to pack rather a long extension cord.

    • OwOarchist@pawb.socialEnglish
      3·
      3 days ago

      Also, you’ll want one with a fair bit of power to it if it’s going to do any permanent damage.

      A typical ‘safe’ 5mw laser isn’t going to do shit, regardless of the color/frequency.