Check Out This Ridiculous Homemade 40W Laser Shotgun

YouTube user styropyro recently unveiled his newest homemade toy, a 40W laser shotgun — his strongest creation yet. Powered by a lithium polymer battery pack, the laser gun is constructed with eight parallel 5W laser beams attached to a giant heatsink whose power is manipulated by lenses to create one massive diode laser array that’s regulated by 24 LM317 drivers. Further demonstration proves the laser gun’s incredible 40W of power and its capabilities in bursting balloons and reducing ping pong balls and pieces of wood to piles of flames and ash almost instantaneously. For a comparison, the most powerful over-the-counter laser you can buy from a store right now would only have 0.005W of power, while the prototype lasers used by U.S. Navy warships have 30,000W of power and are used to shoot down drones.