Recent content by naplam

lol i can't imagine opening that package without the cutter lmao ;D ;D

I understand your view, Senkat, group buys must be time consuming for you, too many customers, dealing with korean sellers and so on... I just wanted to say thanks for all your effort ;)

You shouldn't look at reflected light so closely without goggles, even if it's a diffuse reflection. Maybe the problem is you're not keeping the laser steady, attach the match and the laser to something to keep it steady hitting the exact same spot on the match for a couple of seconds. Do the...

Also bear in mind the other pin (supposed to be the PD pin) is disconnected. I was puzzled (actually tried to use it) until I saw some photos posted here in the forum of the open diode (it has no pd! :-/ )

LOL. When scammers (or, more often, spammers on my forum and stuff) piss me off I usually subscribe their e-mail to a ton of newsletters and spam shit. That effectively screws an email account forever, you never see the bottom of the mailbox again.

Claro, soy español :)

you can also try potatoes

I have the rebel xti too (Eos 400D here in Europe). The kit lens is somewhat poor for a SLR camera lens and can't be used for macro photography (it's still better than handhelds though). If you want to do serious macrophotography buy a suitable lens (for example this or this) A cheaper...

I managed to recover one LD with broken pins yesterday. It just took a lot of effort to solder to the tiny surface left. After that i put a big blob of epoxy glue on it so it doesn't come loose.

I'm Spanish. I guess there's nobody else from Spain here ::)

I found it in my usual electronics shop, but you can also buy it online from several providers (check www.findchips.com for example). I wasn't able to find the bar display in a shop though... I'm using several leds for the time being.

How visible is a blue-violet laser, compared to a green or a red of the same power?

I opened a new thread about it.

I think we can talk about this in a separate thread here. So, this is my circuit to display the current going through the laser diode in a 10-segment bar display: The circuit above is the display circuit and the circuit below is a current regulator circuit. By setting up the LM3914 to measure...

They don't care about the actual price of the goods, they just look at the total you paid in the invoice (at least, that's the way it works here in Spain). It happened to me once already, with 6 r/c helicopters coming from Hong Kong. Bulky packages tend to draw attention, smaller packages have a...