My First Hosted Blu-Ray!

I have been experimenting with 405nm lasers for about two months now, but had not yet installed anything in a host. Now that has changed! Tired of waiting for my money accumulate so I can buy one of Jayrob's beautiful hosts, I decided to hold myself over with a decent looking Altoids tin and a 9v battery. It only looks alright, but what the hey, it's still worth posting. Tell me what you think!

Beam:


Inside:


Side:


Top (nice brushed steel effect, soon to cover the whole tin):


Sorry for the extreme size of the photos. Oh, and if anybody is wondering, the screws are there to hold the 9V battery in place. Plus they make the host look better .

-Jakob

what driver are you using?

An LM317 Constant Current Driver (DDL driver). With electrical tape wrapped around it to prevent any shorts.

-Jakob

So whats the power output? I'm assuming your using a PHR at around 120mA or so. If that's the case, how are you heatsinking it? Perhaps the Altoids tin is absorbing some of the heat?

Oh, BTW, you should try GIMP for your pictures. Its your best friend if you don't want to pay hundreds for Adobe photoshop. It has a heap load of features to do pretty much anything you want, but most notable is the scaling feature for your pictures. I love the GIMP, I use it all the time for cropping, scaling and touching up pictures. It's very easy to use.

http://gimp-win.sourceforge.net/

leukoplast said:

So whats the power output?  I'm assuming your using a PHR at around 120mA or so.   If that's the case, how are you heatsinking it?  Perhaps the Altoids tin is absorbing some of the heat?

Oh, BTW, you should try GIMP for your pictures.  Its your best friend if you don't want to pay hundreds for Adobe photoshop.    It has a heap load of features to do pretty much anything you want, but most notable is the scaling feature for your pictures.    I love the GIMP, I use it all the time for cropping, scaling and touching up pictures.  It's very easy to use.

http://gimp-win.sourceforge.net/

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Thanx for the link, just downloaded and installed the program, looks really nice and less complicated than PS

pianoman2011 said:

Top (nice brushed steel effect, soon to cover the whole tin):-Jakob

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Congrats, the first finished build. I'm sure your having fun now that your really portable. Just don't forget how dangerous these things are.

Have you ever seen a biplane with a aluminum cowl. Where they used a powered rotary hand tool to polish in overlapping swirls. You could do it with a Dremel tool. Or do a smooth polish or some other pattern.



--John

Some of that pearl spay paint would look cool.

leukoplast said:

So whats the power output?  I'm assuming your using a PHR at around 120mA or so.   If that's the case, how are you heatsinking it?  Perhaps the Altoids tin is absorbing some of the heat?

Oh, BTW, you should try GIMP for your pictures.  Its your best friend if you don't want to pay hundreds for Adobe photoshop.    It has a heap load of features to do pretty much anything you want, but most notable is the scaling feature for your pictures.    I love the GIMP, I use it all the time for cropping, scaling and touching up pictures.  It's very easy to use.

http://gimp-win.sourceforge.net/

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Haha it will be a short-lived PHR... the only heatsinking is the Aixiz and maybe the altoids tin absorbs a bit... but there's barely any contact between the Aixiz and tin. And it's running at around 145mA on a fully charged 9v. So I'm not expecting more than two weeks out of it.

And thanks for the link to GIMP. And I actually do have Photoshop CS2 (I'm not gonna say how I got it :)... I just don't really kn ow how to use it. I also have Paint.NET (an equivalent program to GIMP, pretty much a free version of PS). I recommend that program, but I forget where I got it... google is your friend.

Congrats,  the first finished build.  I'm sure your having fun now that your really portable.  Just don't forget how dangerous these things are.

Have you ever seen a biplane with a aluminum cowl.  Where they used a powered rotary hand tool to polish in overlapping swirls.  You could do it with a Dremel tool.  Or do a smooth polish or some other pattern.  


--John

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Thanks! I am having fun and don't worry, I won't forget safety. I have seen this sort of metal brush effect before but I unfortunately have no dremmel or rotary sander or anything of the sort . I also like blu-ray junkie's idea; I might try that!

Some of that pearl spay paint would look cool.

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Nice idea! Does it stick to metal?




-Jakob

pianoman2011 said:

Nice idea! Does it stick to metal?
-Jakob

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Not sure with that brand but Krylon makes peal paint also. That will work for sure.

Blu-Ray_Junkie said:

Not sure with that brand but Krylon makes peal paint also. That will work for sure.

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Sweet... I might order one online. Thanks!

-Jakob

Very nice, seems like some of the pics don't show :-?

XCreedX said:

Very nice, seems like some of the pics don't show :-?

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Thanks! That's weird though, they show on my PC. :-?

-Jakob

XCreedX said:

Very nice, seems like some of the pics don't show :-?

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I can see them all..empty you internet temp folder..it may be full.