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Yeah, bugs are pretty sickening with the high power blues... At infinity focus at over 1 watt of power, it will kill pretty much any small insect at several feet of distance very efficiently, and if you can hold it still, you'll get a thick little wisp of smoke coming off the now dead bug, plus...

Wow, Prototype, THAT is just a work of art there... It's almost 100% untintelligable, hahaha. I particularly liked this part: "high-tech will be poured into the xenon gas inside the quartz tube" Hahahaha that's just awesome, I should add that as a quote in my sig. :-)

This sort of thing ALWAYS cracks me up, and once I've found a really horribly translated page, I can't stop reading till I've found all the "goodies" in it. Oh, I definitely feel for them, I know they're trying and having a hard go of it, but it's STILL funny, just as funny as it would be if a...

I have some solar viewer glasses that are meant for observing eclipses and such but are dark enough to allow you to look right at the noon sun in pristine skies indefinitely. They totally kill ALL the light from my 1.3W 445nm. Given the results of THAT, I am still thinking that I could get ahold...

HAHAHAHA! LOVE it, too funny! I work in an institution (No, it's not a looney bin, but sometimes my coworkers do make me wonder) that has about 90% female workers, many very attractive. The place in general has very strict, almost draconian rules about just about everything you can think of, so...

In that case, I guess I feel like a 26 year old... co-worker... Lol @ Danefex... There comes a magical time, at least for me there did, where even modest amounts of BS seem absolutely intolerable, and acting out in a grumpy fashion seems more and more THE thing to do to sort it out. I still do...

I think that if you could add some pinpoint particles (very sparse) to #3 and give it a star filter effect (like tiny lens flares on the tiny but bright specks), it would look quite cool. The pinpoint particles with a flare effect on them would give it a nice realism touch like airborne dust...

Jusssst made the 31 - 40 bracket... for a little while yet anyway. Old enough to know better, and young enough to say "SCREW IT!" :-)

Although there have already been many responses to this query, and many of them were very informative and eloquent, I still feel compelled to give my own two cents. For me, I think the whole issue is very simple, very plain: YEAH YEAH FIRE! FIRE! FIRE! Actually, lol, ok I do have an honest...

Interesting... Until now I somehow missed the fact that the raw emission from the bare diode is in fact doubled in the center. Here's what mine looks like with no lens, projected onto my washing machine at about two feet... Probably kind of a stupid move because #1 I didn't wear my goggles for...

Knowing nothing about laser shows except that they generally are accompanied by music, I can't of course comment to the effectiveness of these blues as show diodes... However, I must say, they certainly have the power and you can't ask for an easier, cheaper blue laser source. I think they're...

Yes, which is why early in the post, I stated: This wasn't to find out if the beam profile had a round, pretty quality to it. It was to see what the beam profile would look like at a long distance.

Phewwwww that Viper render is BEAUTIFUL, wow. I wouldn't know it from a real photograph.

I think that's just damned pretty. I mess with renderings for prototype designs sometimes too, I find it helps me to work out construction issues sometimes BEFORE they become an ugly real world problem, lol. That said, my work doesn't look near as sweet as this. Nice!

Hi folks, thought y'all might like this. I did something like this back when I first got my Leadlight green pointer, years ago and found it very interesting how clean the somewhat oval dot was when translated into a 3D height map. I've been doing A LOT with my scary high power 1.3W 445nm build...

Got a new one to post, courtesy of the repairwork this afternoon on my blue laser. What happened is, when I went to press the new diode into the head of a common 12mm housing, my drill press based setup slipped somehow and the diode slid to one side in the housing hole instead of going in...

Hahaha omg I have to share this with you guys, it totally cracked me up... I killed my first blue diode last week, and not wanting to be held back in completing my build, I kept working on structural issues and heat dissipation issues. All seemed "ok", but in order to really give it a decent...

Today, we gather to give thanks to the Lord our sheppard, for the gift that was our beloved friend, blue laser diode... Sad but true, I was putting some final touches on the casing and the heat distribution system for my blue 1.25 watt laser build, with the batteries in the damned thing, and I...

Haha, well... good point. Thanks Dave! :-)

Is it considered bad form to duplicate an existing post into another thread here? If not, I'll go add it into that thread. :-) And nope, I sure won't be doing that again. The bright spot here is my "next build" won't even be a build, it'll just be me soldering a new diode into the home vacated...