Well, of all the geeky hobbies I have had before, I think this tops it.
I've fooled around with high power laser pointers before, as well as lab setups, and just recently got into ordering a few to play with.
I started with the $10 violent pointer from one of the review threads. I love it. So I decided I would start building my own pointers and collecting the cheap chinese ones I find along the way.
So with a dilda and 50mw greenie on the way, I start looking at plans for my first build. For the amount of info, the recipe for a laser is simple; diode, driver, power and host. I even found an old DVD burner I have no use for that will be my first experiment.
A little backstory I guess, I'm a mechanical engineer who has tinkered with just about everything I could get my hands on. Now it looks like lasers are the next in line.
So hello!
I've fooled around with high power laser pointers before, as well as lab setups, and just recently got into ordering a few to play with.
I started with the $10 violent pointer from one of the review threads. I love it. So I decided I would start building my own pointers and collecting the cheap chinese ones I find along the way.
So with a dilda and 50mw greenie on the way, I start looking at plans for my first build. For the amount of info, the recipe for a laser is simple; diode, driver, power and host. I even found an old DVD burner I have no use for that will be my first experiment.
A little backstory I guess, I'm a mechanical engineer who has tinkered with just about everything I could get my hands on. Now it looks like lasers are the next in line.
So hello!