First we'll need to take apart the helicopter to get the electronics . We wont be using the built in motors, but we will be using the IR receiver and main circuit to control our servo and the laser light.

Once we disassemble the helicopter, it won't be readily repairable, so take a few moments to fly it around and crash it to your heart's content. We don't need the propellers anyhow.

The toy helicopter is held together with a ton of tiny little screws. We'll need to remove all of them to get to the heart of the toy inside. Using a small phillips head screw driver, go to town on the toy and remove any visible screws and pull apart the now loosened plastic bits. Feel free to hack away at the little helicopter since we don't need any of the components except for the main PCB. Out of curiosity I decided to try to disassemble it as much as possible without resorting to cutting or breaking anything. Amazingly, most of the toy is held together without any glue or tiny heat welds, which is quite impressive! Safely remove the PCB once it is free from the body and snip the wires to the motors, light, and battery. Feel free to use them to make the world's smallest personal fan, or perhaps upgrade a paper airplane to a powered version.