renegadeblack
Active Member
You can actually use the laser out of a CD burner in a new housing, but I dont know if they are considered high powered enough to require a laser license. If it does, dont do it. I feel like lasers are wayyyyyyyyy over-engineering this in the first place. A mouse trap with a piece of fish line to trigger it, or some sort of solinoid would be perfectly fine. Do you need to move the device off? Im sure the guts of an RC car would be plenty sufficient in terms of reliablity and power to make a pin pop a baloon.
Really? You think that a laser is over-engineering? If you ask me, I'd say that a mousetrap with a line and what not is getting close to a Rube Goldberg, and starting to dissect an RC car certainly wouldn't be the easiest way to go. Use a CD burner (or perhaps BluRay ) laser. Point and shoot... quite literally. Doesn't get much simpler.