Photos: An 'old' PS3 build w/LM317 driver

Thought this would be fun to add to the collection of photos here.

Back when the PS3 revolution took hold I whipped me up a simple project box host that looked like this:










It was soooo extremely cool to finally have another color to add to my collection of handheld lasers!

Good times....



Another photo on the subsequent post. VVV

-Scott

It still puts out a decent dot and beam with the original battery!!




-Scott

cool

Nice work. How many mAs of current to the diode?
I like the way you arranged the aixiz to the board

magonegro said:

Nice work. How many mAs of current to the diode?
I like the way you arranged the aixiz to the board

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Thanks to both of you for your compliments.

For the mA I set it around 40 mA based upon what I had learned on this page:

Blu-ray Reader Dissection by Leslie Wright and Sam Goldwasser - Main Page

That was such a cool project! I ended up making two.

I've just replaced the above older AiXiz lens with one of the newer wider ones and the beam looks even stronger.

-Scott