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I had been wanting to add a green laser to my collection. I was looking around for parts because I wanted to invest minimal money yet I wanted 100mW+. So after a while I got lucky and found someone on ebay liquidating their green modules. I scored a 100mW green module for $25 with shipping and the housing shown below costed me about $5 so it ended up being a $30 project.
I held onto the module for a while before I made an attempt at build a housing since I wanted it look decent and I used CAD to get my ideas down on paper and for it to be a reference during construction.
This was the first design I came up with using copper pipe for the housing and AAA's for batteries although I actually used AA's in the final build.
Here is the second build I came up with using a CR123 battery but I kinda thought it looked awkward and decided not to go with it
Pic of the 100mW green module.
The completed laser, used a toothpick for the button switch and the overall length was pretty close to the CAD'ed design. Used aluminum foil to fill the gap between the module and the copper pipe.
Here's how the endcap turned out, had to use a combination of solder and superglue to make it work. I let a touch of glue try on both endcaps before I put them on so they would be a nice smug fit yet still be removeable.
I drilled a hole in the endcap over the module and oriented it so the beam comes out clean.
And there's a pic of the dot.
I held onto the module for a while before I made an attempt at build a housing since I wanted it look decent and I used CAD to get my ideas down on paper and for it to be a reference during construction.
This was the first design I came up with using copper pipe for the housing and AAA's for batteries although I actually used AA's in the final build.
Here is the second build I came up with using a CR123 battery but I kinda thought it looked awkward and decided not to go with it
Pic of the 100mW green module.
The completed laser, used a toothpick for the button switch and the overall length was pretty close to the CAD'ed design. Used aluminum foil to fill the gap between the module and the copper pipe.
Here's how the endcap turned out, had to use a combination of solder and superglue to make it work. I let a touch of glue try on both endcaps before I put them on so they would be a nice smug fit yet still be removeable.
I drilled a hole in the endcap over the module and oriented it so the beam comes out clean.
And there's a pic of the dot.
