hey everyone umm i just noticed that on my computer mouse it says 150mw laser so i was wondering if i could turn this into a laser pointer and if i can how?
Wiki says computer mice operate in inferred light, so the beam/dot will not be visible, however you could burn stuff with it. I'm pretty sure you could take it out and use it, just give it a driver, heatsink, case, and whatever else I am forgetting. As far as how, taking it out is pretty much a given, and assembling it shouldn't be too hard, just search it on youtube. That's all I know, you'll have to talk to an expert past that.
your mouse says it has a 150mW laser in it? that seems quite high just to provide light to the tracking chip...
my G5 has an IR laser in it, but it's prolly only 1-5mW, I think buying one of the 808nm diodes from stonetek.org would be a more efficient way of getting an IR laser diode (they're like $8)
I think you confused a laser mouse with an optical mouse. Optical mice have an LED that tracks motion, such LEDs are red light. As I said, true laser mice operate in IR.
EDIT: you might be on to something though, try focusing that light and it might become pretty powerful. I don't really know but it seems logical. It won't really be a laser by definition, but it will do the job.
really bright led then cause it hurt my eyes lol
lol ok thnx sorry guys
you c i live in australia so i cant buy nethin over 1mw so i want to make one but i dont have the resorces and then i saw my mouce and .......... well yeh