Search results

Does anyone know how fast these things should be able to go and what they like drive signal wise for semi fast operations like engraving images? I can't seem to get mine to work particularity quickly. I'm driving it off of a system intended to control a synrad tube. It works but it's not so...

I have a uls-25e. the synrad on it died. the synrad was expensive. So I decided to retrofit it with a 60w glass co2 laser, new optics, water cooling, etc. I know the RF tube needed a tickle pulse. Does the glass co2 tube need a tickle pulse? It seems to be working okay without it, but I want...

Hello, So the laser works great. Fully functional. But for the love of god I can't get it to do any vector type actions. It goes into raster mode just fine. That works. But I can't cut anything because it won't do vectoring. I have an SVG file I want to cut, its all dimensioned and sized...

Someone just gave it to me. It apparently has a dead tube. Right now I can't do much as it weighs so much and is in my car, and is probably going to live in there for a day or two till I can get it out. Does anyone know anything about these things? Honestly my plan is to use it for its...

Dunno if this has been done and shot down before, but.. I've been thinking for a long time on how a HUD could be made cheaply. With the power of lasers. What my idea entails is to coat the front face of plexiglass/glass with a UV reactive coating. Then coat the back face with a UV blocking...

I've been working on this thing for ages, and it finally flies. And now for some shots from the go-pro video. I'll update the post with a youtube vid when I have it uploaded. On this last shot, in the batting area of the baseball diamond, the white blotch is me. Boring first...

Okay, I've done some searching around and this topic is surprisingly hard to find things on. I saw the 24 diode laser at the burning man thing, and I've been wondering of compact ways to mount and focus multiple lasers onto a single point, for a really awesomely powerful laser pointer. Now...

At school I'm building a custom FPV (first person view) aircraft as a project. I forgot to take actual photos of the aircraft, but its a hobbyking EPP-FPV 1.8 meter wingspan ..big. lol I did snap a picture of all the components (minus the buckboost psu for the electronics since it hasn't...

I got a new power supply! :D For ten bucks, I think its damn good. Max output: 15v Max sustained current: 50A Max burst current: 53A Nice and powerful. And for comparison, here is my old power supply:

Hey everyone! I can now officially say I have a real build! Well.. half real. My host is a piece of wood. ;) Got the heatsink for cheap on ebay, ripped the other heatsink for the 317 off of an old rc car speed controller. It is the diode from the LPC-815, driven at 400mA. No idea what its...

Uh... I'm really not sure what is going on. I plug in my 650nm laser diode, through a ddl driver set to ~270ma and ... its white. like blue whiteish. Not red. ._.; EDIT: Turns out its a blue laser.. you can't really blame me, I was told it was red... :thinking: I think it is, anyway.. I...

What an awesome name for a flashlight, no? :P I've had it for a while. Finally got the parts necessary to get it going again. (damn batteries) It has about 30 minutes left of charging. I'll post a picture of its 10,000,000 candles of glory when it goes. :D Also, making an appearance is my...

Hey everyone, I was just wondering. Does anyone here know how fast a laser can pulse before it won't do it properly anymore? I had the random idea of making a long range Ethernet bridge using lasers and receivers to act like the wires of an Ethernet cable. And how do you go about rapidly...

I run a rather large (in my opinion) multi monitor setup. Anyone else here do the same? I'm sure someone does. :p

If this isn't the place for it, I'm sorry. I saw LED's in this forums description, realized that I have an interesting LED thing, so I figured that I'd post it. Hope you all like it! It is a 512 blue led cube, controlled via micro controller, but can tie into a computer through a serial...

Hello, I'm new around here and I've been reading a lot of the forum, but the majority of the time was spent in the safety sections. I've just ordered the parts necessary to build a roughly 300(?)mw laser pointer. I have plenty of time till all of the parts arrive, so I figured I'd get well...

Hello everyone, I'm new here. XD This place seems awesome. I'm building a laser and after every google result seemed to direct to here, I figured that must mean this place is the hot stuff when it comes to lasers. So I've been wondering around and I must say that everything here is awesome...