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Mod your useless HD DVD drive to BURN PEOPLE'S FACES OFF!
5:00 AM on 01.06.2009, Hamza CTZ Aziz 22 comments

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Stuck with a defunct HD DVD drive that’s taking up precious space from your videogames and the Blu-rays? Got a need to inflict pain onto random strangers because your parents don’t love you enough? If you answered yes to both of those questions, then I have the perfect video for you!

This how-to guide from Instructables gives a detailed look at how to take the blue laser diode from the Xbox 360's HD DVD drive and turn it into a secondary weapon that attaches to Walther PPKs. What the video doesn’t show is what happens to all of the remaining pieces of the HD DVD drive. If I were to make this mod, I would sharpen up all of the plastic pieces into shivs to aid in my nerd rampage.

Or, you know, just use the gun.  

[Via the King of Stampede]


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SnakeDude4Life's Avatar
SnakeDude4Life at 01/06/2009 05:48
Great!

Now all I need is the money for a HDDVD, a gun, a diode housing, a solder gun, a laser guide for the gun, driver circuit(with all extra bits.)

Oh...
Monodi's Avatar
Monodi at 01/06/2009 06:00
can you do this with other laser artifacts?
Vitamin Awesome's Avatar
Vitamin Awesome at 01/06/2009 06:00
Awesome, now I can start up that seedy Lasik Clinic like I always wanted.
Slique's Avatar
Slique at 01/06/2009 06:11
Now they just need to mod it to make an awesome 'pew pew' noise when fired.
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Grimspoon at 01/06/2009 06:46
Wait, why is the HD DVD drive useless? My HD DVD's must have missed the memo stating that they have to stop working and looking fucking beautiful now that the format isn't supported...cause they still work and still look fucking beautiful.

Plus they cost like 5 bucks a pop, compared to their 30 dollar Blu Ray counterparts.

Just sayin'...
RonBurgandy2010's Avatar
RonBurgandy2010 at 01/06/2009 06:50
@ Grimspoon
But there's like, what, 50 movies to choose from?


Also, I'm from the south, the gun will be the easy part :)
BlackSheep's Avatar
BlackSheep at 01/06/2009 07:43
it's those darn smarts that are hard to comes by.
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Tehmtnlion at 01/06/2009 07:59
AWESOME!!!!!
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AgentMOO at 01/06/2009 08:01
Hamza... You should make a hat out of one of these lasers. A shark with a fricking laser beam fears no one
BigPopaGamer's Avatar
BigPopaGamer at 01/06/2009 08:32
Holy cow. Best video of the week so far Hamza. What an awesome find.
Rational Animal's Avatar
Rational Animal at 01/06/2009 09:06
I think I'll just continue using it to play ridiculously under-priced content in 1080p with uncompressed 7.1 surround sound.
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bobyoko at 01/06/2009 11:08
awesome post, that looked like a simple build for such a cool toy. you could probably fit the same lens into a laser pointer as well.
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Holyetheline at 01/06/2009 11:21
That is really cool but I can never see myself making one of these.
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savagesaladin at 01/06/2009 11:28
He put it on a PPK? I've fired plenty of handguns, the PPK is one of the worst handguns I've ever fired. Inaccurate, painful to fire because of its design, the trigger requires several pounds of pressure to pull... Classic garbage. Give me a classic Colt 1911.
Hamza CTZ Aziz's Avatar
Hamza CTZ Aziz at 01/06/2009 13:04
Grimspoon: Jokes man! I'm looking to buy one myself when I see one for like $20. Hell, I still have a VCR player!
manbot's Avatar
manbot at 01/06/2009 13:59
A laser this powerful can cause permanent eye damage from milliseconds of exposure time. Even the beam reflected off a wall can cause permanent damage (albeit at a much slower rate). Making one of these is just stupid unless you have the proper safety equipment, and are trained with this class of laser.
Electro Lemon's Avatar
Electro Lemon at 01/06/2009 18:22
VCR is the wave of the motherfucking future, Hamza. Don't joke. You'll see.




You'll all see.
Fleet3000's Avatar
Fleet3000 at 01/07/2009 02:02
dude, that's just awesome.
Grimspoon's Avatar
Grimspoon at 01/07/2009 08:38
Sorry Hamza, I just catch a lot of flak for enjoying a defunct format and have grown used to people hating it.
falinter's Avatar
falinter at 01/08/2009 13:52
I'm going to buy one just to brake it and burn peoples face off!



Also, 22 comments and 90+ thousand views? Come on people.
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