Companies like Wicked Lasers will sell you a Blu-ray diode laser.But this DIY keychain looks flat-out deadly in this photo, like a mini one-shot pistol of the future…that can fire for a whole ...

As spotted by Hackster.io this week, a YouTuber named Doctor Volt recently detailed their two-part journey of turning a Samsung BD-J5900 Blu-ray player into a laser-scanning microscope.

This laser pointer has a 405nm Blu-ray laser diode housed inside spacecraft grade 6061-T6 aluminum. These are the same laser diodes that caused the delay of the European PS3 launch because of ...

This laser display is persistent thanks to a glow-in-the-dark screen. [Daniel] built it using a Blu-ray laser diode. As the laser dot traverses the screen, it charges the phosphors in the glow mate… ...

In addition to a Blu-Ray lasers, he also has versions with a 200mW red diode. Related: Laser projector zippo Posted in Laser Hacks , News Tagged blu-ray , bluray , electronics , keychain , laser ...

Blu-ray players work in a similar way: the "blue" diode beams a 405 nm laser onto a Blu-ray disc surface, and then an optical sensor converts the reflected light into a binary digit ("1" or "0 ...

We tested out an expensive laser the other day and found it sufficient for lighting a candle, but this one appears to be rather more powerful — and you can gank it out of a Blu-ray player.

Sony has developed a smaller (and therefore cheaper) Blu-Ray laser, which if they decide to put into new PS3s, would significantly cut the production cost. This means that Sony would start making mone ...

Taiwan-based makers of game consoles and components say that the coming end of Blu-ray laser packaging shortages should result in a PlayStation 3 price cut, perhaps as much as $100. According to ...

A new Blu-ray laser has been created that could significantly lower the cost of production as well as look a lot cooler than the fatty laser being used currently. This is, of course, assuming Sony ...

The argument over what the PS3’s Blu-ray laser is better for, watching movies or playing games, has been rendered moot by this hack which uses it to make a super sweet Star Trek (original series ...

Blu-ray laser diodes, the global shortage of which has forced Sony to drastically limit initial production of the PlayStation 3 game console, ...