I was on the wicked site today, to see if there was a status update on my Arctic when i noticed that the price on their greens has been reduced significantly.
A 300mW SpyderIII is now only 499. A few weeks ago they were selling these lasers for $2000. They have the 500mW as well, but they are...
I bought a 4 axis CNC machine as a birthday present to myself about 6 months ago and i've managed to get pretty good at it. Its been about 2 months since i've snapped a bit or made the machine do something really dumb. I also have all my fingers despite considerable effort on my part to loose...
There is a guy on ebay selling 5-10mW 473nm DPSS lasers for $87 shipped.
You have to keep an eye out for his auctions or you can PM him and have him send you a paypal invoice like i did and get your hands on some blue light for under $100
eBay My World - science-surplus
All of his ebay...
All bluray sleds these days have a small micro stepper motor that uses a screw drive to move a lens assembly. You can see it in the lower left corner on this 12x sled.
The motor appears to be a bipolar stepper motor (thats why they have 4 leads) and likely works similarly to the larger stepper...
I recently aquired a nice CNC machine for my shop. The machine is capable of 4 axis milling with accuracy of 1/1000th of an inch.
Projects that can be made on this machine include:
PCB etching 1 or 2 sided
engraving
custom heat sinks
custom hosts
small parts
cut plates (signs, letters, shapes)...
"The mystery began when a blue light seemed to soar up from behind a mountain in the north of the country. It stopped mid-air, then began to move in circles. Within seconds a giant spiral had covered the entire sky."
Mystery as spiral blue light display hovers above Norway | Mail Online
6x blu-ray diode sled£>405nm blue-violet laser£>Laser&lighting products£>www.0-like.com
Looks like Susie found some. diodes look like they are still in their heatsinks and the ribbon cable hasn't yet been removed.
Still i paid $50 for one of these less than a month ago.
I hadn't posted this before because i had figured that it would have been discussed before, but after a quick search it seems no one here has posted anything.
Anyways, there is a band from Austin, Texas called ghostland observatory. They play a sort of funk psychedelic rock and have a pretty...
I am working on cutting down the size of a green laser module at the moment and a thought came to me. Currently most green modules use 2 lenses to create a low diverging beam. But are two lenses needed? The answer is not really.
Because of the nature of lasers we want to take light that is...
I am trying to shorten the length of one of sandstone's 50mw green modules. The module uses two lenses. One is mounted to the diode and the second is mounted in the barrel piece. The first lens expands the beam and the second one corrects the divergence.
My question is, has anyone removed the...
The Crystal Method http://www.thecrystalmethod.com were doing a DJ set in my city a few weeks ago and I went to the club they were playing at. I decided to bring my small pointers with me which consist of a DX 200 red, a 20mW green, and a 100mW Bluray. During the set I had all three of my lasers...
I'm looking for two 15mm dicros. The first I need is a reflect red, pass green and blue. The second is a reflect green, pass blue. CTlasers has these for $35 http://www.ctlasers.com/html/components.html#optics
Can anyone beat this price?
I am interested in modifying a lavadrive so that the current can be adjusted on the fly. I would like to remove the current trim pot off the drive and attach either a slide or thumb wheel resistor in its place. Before this can be done, I need to know the model of the current trim pot on the...