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Hello laser gaurdians, my name is Skumdog and I am from Jacksonville, Florida. I am a professional cook and like many of you, I am addicted to collimated photons. Robotics and LASER's have amazed me since I was a wee tot. I am a hobby roboticist utilizing mainly Arduino but here recently I found myself moving towards 32 bit ARM based MCU's.

I just recently purchased a cheap $9.99 405nm laser off eBay and it was way more powerful than anything I had ever used. I don't know how powerful it actually is but it stings the skin with the collimated beam. I decided to join the forum here because I love lasers and want to know more about what I have and what's available.

Other than that I really don't know what else to say. Thanks for this forum and it's heaps of information. Hopefully I am welcome here and I can learn the ways from the greats!

Thanks!