{"id":9749,"date":"2010-01-21T09:33:02","date_gmt":"2010-01-21T15:33:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/?p=9749"},"modified":"2010-01-21T02:43:55","modified_gmt":"2010-01-21T08:43:55","slug":"how-to-build-your-own-working-star-trek-phaser-not-a-joke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/2010\/01\/how-to-build-your-own-working-star-trek-phaser-not-a-joke\/","title":{"rendered":"How To: Build Your Own Working Star Trek Phaser, Not a Joke"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Words fail.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><object width=\"480\" height=\"295\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/7S71mPJ0F0Q&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;color1=0xe1600f&#038;color2=0xfebd01\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/7S71mPJ0F0Q&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;color1=0xe1600f&#038;color2=0xfebd01\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"480\" height=\"295\"><\/embed><\/object> <\/div>\n<p>A Star Trek fan has modified a phaser from <em>The Original Series <\/em> and turned it into a balloon popping terror. If you want to make your own just <a href=\"http:\/\/laserpointerforums.com\/f51\/tutorial-12x-star-trek-phaser-mod-46886.html\" class=\"external external_icon\">follow his instructions<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>First person to alter those specs to make it a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/products\/catalog?q=han+solo+blaster&#038;oe=utf-8&#038;rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&#038;client=firefox-a&#038;um=1&#038;ie=UTF-8&#038;cid=1062463193790742381&#038;ei=sBRYS6XeMo2Xtge0q_S4BA&#038;sa=X&#038;oi=product_catalog_result&#038;ct=result&#038;resnum=1&#038;ved=0CBsQ8wIwAA#ps-sellers\" class=\"external external_icon\">Han Solo blaster<\/a> instead of a James T. Kirk equalizer gets several pints of the finest beer from us.*<\/p>\n<p>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/dvice.com\/archives\/2010\/01\/homemade-star-t.php\" class=\"external external_icon\">dvice<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>*Only if we get a free working version.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Words fail. A Star Trek fan has modified a phaser from The Original Series and turned it into a balloon popping terror. If you want to make your own just follow his instructions. First person to alter those specs to make it a Han Solo blaster instead of a James T. Kirk equalizer gets several [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52,43,7],"tags":[1897,103,176,1898,661,4927,125],"class_list":["post-9749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-just-freaking-neat","category-tutorials","category-video","tag-12x-blu-ray","tag-awesome","tag-diy","tag-laser","tag-star-trek","tag-video","tag-you-tube"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9749"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9749\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9751,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9749\/revisions\/9751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}