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    Future project ideas

    yellow seems like it would be good practice for the others.
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    "hdd galvos" Experimentation and project in the works

    Yeah and its my nightmare. Over this summer i slowed down on the whole project and started some new ones. In that short hiatus Ive seemed to forget a few things. I now have decided to make a more simpler driver so i can finally have some fun.
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    Meaning of nicknames

    Dakota is my first name and im Native American. I originally used it as my playstation Network username and it kind of stuck for almost everything i register on.
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    Occupation

    about to start my first semester in college which is going towards my bachelors in electrical engineering. trying to get a job in machining or fabricating but i did assemble some circuit boards a while ago.
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    Simple Electric Motor Demonstration Videos

    Re: Simple Electric Motor Demonstration Video I tried to get my Friend to make one of these but with a 175 lb of pull force magnet. He bought the magnet and started machining everything but got lazy and didn't finish it. It was supposed to look like one of those really old mechanical governors...
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    "hdd galvos" Experimentation and project in the works

    managed to mount some hard drive arms on some plexiglass. Having the arms mounted on the original frame of the hard drive is convenient but needs some machining. Since i can do that machining out in my shed this is a nice alternative. all i did was size my plexiglass, clamp it down squared up...
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    Advice for daylight line laser

    green sounds like your best bet and perhaps 50mw? but id be worried about reflection if you were using this on something like table saw or mill. and what your looking for is a line generating module and i haven't read it anywhere but im pretty sure its the lens in the module that creates the...
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    My greenie made him puke!

    i had to take a nap after using my 50mw green one night but it was more like eye fatigue.
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    "hdd galvos" Experimentation and project in the works

    yes you are correct qumefox i bought it from harbor freight. good site right here which helped convince to buy one mini-lathe.com home page lots of good info.
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    "hdd galvos" Experimentation and project in the works

    its coming along finally collected all of the goodies for the user panel :) thats 10 rgy led's and there panel mount clips, 10 momentary push buttons, some audio jacks and power jack, two 1 turn 100k potentiometers, two 1 turn 10k audio potentiomters, and some 10 turn 100k potentiometers...
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    CONTEST...Win an LPC-826 NOW GOING THRU MAY 25th

    lets say i used a random laser module and heatsink but built a totally original laser effect. would that be a valid entry?
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    "hdd galvos" Experimentation and project in the works

    -2 variable frequencies per axis/HDD (standard control) - an alternate function per axis that alternates between the two frequencies chosen. -two channel audio input along with an output to external speakers. gives up to 5 or 6 watts per channel. - an audio/standard control function. - a...
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    "hdd galvos" Experimentation and project in the works

    @ sourcegeek, read the last couple post on the first page of this thread. thought this might be a little helpful to some of you i hope its not too vague. the 4049 is a hex inverter (6 inverters in one package) you only need two but i had a 4049 and it happens to have 6. the L293D is a sort of...
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    "hdd galvos" Experimentation and project in the works

    @ sourcegeek, i had the mounting rods machined along with some small slides with a set screw in each then just used epoxy to glue them on. sorry that its been a while but Ive been pretty busy with school. Ive abandoned my circuit board design since i have left way too much room for error. Ive...


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