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Awesome, thank you for sharing Pete! Seriously! I've been wondering what it takes to put together one of those laser66 hosts. Wish I could +rep you. Also, great find with that little flashlight! :)

From what I've heard, yes.

Plain plastic won't block IR light, you'll need an IR filter. How bout a sheet, like this: Cobra Optics - 3mm IR Filter Sheet (10x10cm) At this point, though, might as well just wear safety goggles that block IR instead. You can see through those better than you can a sheet like that.

589 is just easier to produce, slightly higher visibility, more stable, and available in higher powers. Or so I'm told. EDIT: but 593.5 is such a nice colour tho...

I too was always fascinated by light, when my dad brought home a laser pointer from a business presentation, I was captivated. At the same time I did some searching, and like others here came across Styro's vids. I was an obsessive little child, so you know I binge watched the shít out of his...

You're probably right on the money, H2Oxide. Anyways, I've never heard of or seen that site before, doubt many other people have. As far as we should be concerned, it's practically invisible.

I asked Bruce a similar question a while ago; he says he sets up the lasers one colour at a time more or less, while wearing the set that protects against that wavelength. Once he's positive the laser(s) are stable, he can take off that set and move on to the next colours. Making sure there's no...

Superb. I like those last prism ones the most as well, especially #20 :)

I think your best option right now would be just to go with DPSS 473... If you want a sky blue 5mW laser. As others have mentioned, closest to cyan you'll get at 5mW is around 455nm with a diode :/

Very nice Bowtie! Always saw those prints, never thought about them

There isn't really a pair of glasses that does that, at least one that's not a plank of wood. Think about it, if you blocked red green and blue all at once... What else would you be able to see!

Well done, and good job on that problem solving!

I suppose, that makes sense. Here is a review of a 1W eBay laser: http://laserpointerforums.com/f52/ebay-thor-laser-93771.html I guess there really isn't an advantage for the seller to under drive it, it's not cheaper or anything. The main reason to avoid them is the quality most often. Thanks...

Very nice! You said it's a 60W tube, but it was underpowered in the video. Since the spot is the loudest source, that must mean that the wood is getting burnt so fast that in the fractions of a second the dot is on during a note, every time it pulses on the wood puffs out a little smoke/gas at...

Think you got it backwards bud, usually eBay lasers are far, far underspec if there sold as 1W, and if his is reaching 1W then it might be a quality seller or overdriven.

@Alaskan It's that damn Mercator Projection again.... :crackup:

Holy... Never seen this before! So the tube is hooked up to software that pulses it at different frequencies, but is the sound being generated from the wood burning and the gasses that escape are producing the frequency? Or is the tube itself vibrating?

Good, good, dip your toes into the waters of DIY! I know you like the look of the clean, professional, manufactured CNI lasers, but it couldn't be too hard to make your own labby that looks clean, if you put some elbow grease into it :) If you like the exotic colours, totally consider just...

Totally, I want to pick up DTR's RGB diode bundle, they're all single mode and balance out to 300mW of white nicely. I'm just upset my $100 in laser savings changed into $65 useful dollars without me changing anything.

Wouldn't you get a more blue-white? Since cyan is B+G, and magenta is B+R, thats two parts blue to one part green and red? I wanna do something like that, I found a cheapy RGB laser driver with potentiometers and TTL switching, thought it would be great to make a RBG adjustable laser. Expanding...