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Dear C0ldshadow, admins, and members of LPF,
I was thinking about how newer people to the forums (myself included) are less aware of the history and specific processes involving countless hours of ingenuity, creativity and research that went into providing the knowledge to allow the diverse marketplace of all kinds of various hosts, pre-soldered modules, extracted diodes, focus adapters, drivers etc. that many people take for granted today.
The Golden age of the laser hobby thread showed how many members appreciate a time a few years back where it wasn't as easy as purchasing a pre extracted diode or host kit and there was much more that had to be done from scratch while pushing the boundaries of the limits of the diodes, and not knowing how much current they could take without blowing them. While the process of experimentation was costly the rewards were incredible and continually surprising just what could be achieved! Along the way these boundaries of the unknown were explored and many milestones of achievement in the laser hobby were made along the journey.
Would it be possible to have a section of the forum to recognize and showcase these major milestones of achievement? While some of the threads about these feats of ingenuity might come up in a search, I was thinking that these achievements should be brought to the front and deserve some kind of collected format to display and showcase them. For newcomers and for historical record to recognize all the time and money spent by these laser pioneers who paved the way (losing many little diodes) to bring the knowledge, techniques and ideas that are commonplace and used by all of us today might be kind of cool.
In the "Hall of Fame" subsection, specific major milestones in the laser hobby achieved by members on the forum could be displayed. Each achievement could have it's own page with a brief summary of the background of how the discovery or achievement was accomplished written by the member (and / or) if they prefer instead just a link to the original thread, and maybe even a little photoshop award medal for each major milestone.
These could be achievements such as first extracted blue ray diode into a handheld, first 405nm > 100mW, first 445nm, 1st. >1W 405nm, 1st. 520nm handheld, 1st >2W 445nm, multi diode handheld, and many others along the way that the veterans have done in the history of LPF that I as a relative noob are not aware of.
I think this would be really cool to have this Hall of Fame / History of milestone achievements section so that newcomers can see the process that went into paving the way to the laser hobby we have today but also to recognize the achievements of these members and not to have the threads on these achievements get lost to history or forgotten under all the newer threads on the forum. Recognizing all the major achievements in a subsection on LPF might take some time so if people are interested maybe a new milestone could be added each week or every two weeks with a thread to suggest nominations of what achievements or major milestones in the laser hobby they think should be added to the Hall of Fame. :bowdown:
I was thinking about how newer people to the forums (myself included) are less aware of the history and specific processes involving countless hours of ingenuity, creativity and research that went into providing the knowledge to allow the diverse marketplace of all kinds of various hosts, pre-soldered modules, extracted diodes, focus adapters, drivers etc. that many people take for granted today.
The Golden age of the laser hobby thread showed how many members appreciate a time a few years back where it wasn't as easy as purchasing a pre extracted diode or host kit and there was much more that had to be done from scratch while pushing the boundaries of the limits of the diodes, and not knowing how much current they could take without blowing them. While the process of experimentation was costly the rewards were incredible and continually surprising just what could be achieved! Along the way these boundaries of the unknown were explored and many milestones of achievement in the laser hobby were made along the journey.
Would it be possible to have a section of the forum to recognize and showcase these major milestones of achievement? While some of the threads about these feats of ingenuity might come up in a search, I was thinking that these achievements should be brought to the front and deserve some kind of collected format to display and showcase them. For newcomers and for historical record to recognize all the time and money spent by these laser pioneers who paved the way (losing many little diodes) to bring the knowledge, techniques and ideas that are commonplace and used by all of us today might be kind of cool.
In the "Hall of Fame" subsection, specific major milestones in the laser hobby achieved by members on the forum could be displayed. Each achievement could have it's own page with a brief summary of the background of how the discovery or achievement was accomplished written by the member (and / or) if they prefer instead just a link to the original thread, and maybe even a little photoshop award medal for each major milestone.
These could be achievements such as first extracted blue ray diode into a handheld, first 405nm > 100mW, first 445nm, 1st. >1W 405nm, 1st. 520nm handheld, 1st >2W 445nm, multi diode handheld, and many others along the way that the veterans have done in the history of LPF that I as a relative noob are not aware of.
I think this would be really cool to have this Hall of Fame / History of milestone achievements section so that newcomers can see the process that went into paving the way to the laser hobby we have today but also to recognize the achievements of these members and not to have the threads on these achievements get lost to history or forgotten under all the newer threads on the forum. Recognizing all the major achievements in a subsection on LPF might take some time so if people are interested maybe a new milestone could be added each week or every two weeks with a thread to suggest nominations of what achievements or major milestones in the laser hobby they think should be added to the Hall of Fame. :bowdown:
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