I'm psyched to message him tomorrow.
Sneak peek of one he is making for me
Tweaking lens positions can align beams to be parallel. More to the head being machined now.
I want to use it as a test bed for a future laser pointer, going to start out with single mode R,G,B diodes because of their ability to place a much brighter spot at a great distance than the multimode diodes can do, unless they have a beam expander, of course. I'm going to allow the raw output of the laser diodes to expand before having them pass though a long FL lens to get each diode to spot onto the single output lens in the same place as well as closer to parallel before final collimation. That's the idea, this normally wouldn't work, just produce three separate beams coming out of the collimation lens, except for a trick I have up my sleeve, if it works. If it doesn't work as planned, then I might take the R,G,B's out and put some high power multimode diodes in it with a beam expander, either that or three 900mw 405nm single mode laser diodes such as the SO6J or the 16X BDR-209 Bluray Diode.