Greetings,
I'm new to the laser arena but have some skills handling electronics, building and modifying LED flashlights etc...
I now need a compact handheld laser for short range experiments in my lab.
It requires a good visibility 532nm Green and 650nm Red (~5mW) and a bit stronger 405nm violet (10mW-20mW !?).
It doesn't have to be too fancy - I don't need to burn anything, have extremely long range or operate these for more than few seconds at a time- just an elegant and compact as possible device I can carry around for demonstrations.
From looking around the forums here I saw many COOL projects with some clever ideas - but mostly way too powerful or too big for my needs.
I saw few of those 2in1 pointers at DealExtreme/DinoDirect for $20-30 - but they only have 2 colors (usually Red/Green or Blue/Green).
So I wondered if its feasible to house 3 small modules inside one of these compact $2 9-LED 8000mcd White Light Flashlight with DX Logo - Black (3*AAA) or the multifunction 2-in-1 7-LED Flashlight with Laser.
Can anyone recommend a suitable setup/ host/ laser modules source for that small project?
I'd like to keep it as compact as possible and on tight budget (<$30 !?).
Perhaps even getting cheap pointers as a source for the laser modules etc...
Thank you guys for the help and happy holidays,
Gal
I'm new to the laser arena but have some skills handling electronics, building and modifying LED flashlights etc...
I now need a compact handheld laser for short range experiments in my lab.
It requires a good visibility 532nm Green and 650nm Red (~5mW) and a bit stronger 405nm violet (10mW-20mW !?).
It doesn't have to be too fancy - I don't need to burn anything, have extremely long range or operate these for more than few seconds at a time- just an elegant and compact as possible device I can carry around for demonstrations.
From looking around the forums here I saw many COOL projects with some clever ideas - but mostly way too powerful or too big for my needs.
I saw few of those 2in1 pointers at DealExtreme/DinoDirect for $20-30 - but they only have 2 colors (usually Red/Green or Blue/Green).
So I wondered if its feasible to house 3 small modules inside one of these compact $2 9-LED 8000mcd White Light Flashlight with DX Logo - Black (3*AAA) or the multifunction 2-in-1 7-LED Flashlight with Laser.
Can anyone recommend a suitable setup/ host/ laser modules source for that small project?
I'd like to keep it as compact as possible and on tight budget (<$30 !?).
Perhaps even getting cheap pointers as a source for the laser modules etc...
Thank you guys for the help and happy holidays,
Gal
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