Recent content by Zeroignite

I am the girlfriend with lasers. My boyfriend doesn't get it... though he did say that the 405 I got him will make him "the coolest kid presenting at the [academic] conference."

Ahh, it's not really current, but I love this photo too much to not share. Taken last spring: Still no snow yet here, but I'm hoping.

Do you mean a Crookes Radiometer?

Heya, At university, I've spent the last semester learning how to use the mills/lathes in the machine shop for the Mechanical Engineering program. Apparently, I have pretty much free access to the shop for whatever personal project I want, and what better than making my own 445nm >1w laser...

Wow. As seen in the other thread, $500 for a mill/lathe combo? Now I'm just disappointed that my tiny studio apartment doesn't have room for a workbench... I'd have so much fun with that. Still need to figure out if I can use the uni machine shop for personal projects; that's the only thing...

Excuse me while I go gwibber in a corner. Knowing the difference between the orders of magnitude and seeing in in linear space... not the same. Not the same at all. Gwuhhhhghgh.

Using M:tG cards to hold up the optics really makes the photo :na:

Most fun I've had all day ^_^

cs84880702, you've posting a lot, posts that don't add anything to the discussion. I don't know what you're doing, but it irritates me and I'd appreciate if you posted more constructively. Quality matters more than postcount.

When I contacted them, I got the same standard "return for a replacement." It just didn't seem worth it to me, so I kept the pointer.

The blu-ray lasers emit light at 405nm, which is borderline ultraviolet. It is capable of making things fluoresce similar to a blacklight. I got a 405 from laserquickship on ebay last week, and I'm absolutely in love. While its true that the dot itself is dim compared to a green, the color is...

I just got one of the "5mW" 405s from itemquickship. Took about a week to get here. I'm very thrilled with the preformance. I don't have an LPM, but in good darkness the beam is very faintly visible; hitting something flourescent like a piece of white fabric or paper produces a very bright dot...

CCleaner cleans cookies, one of my standard steps for fixing "weird browser problems". :)

Mmmm. Maybe if you pressed the aperture right against the single-pane glass, reflections wouldn't be a big deal. My uncle owns a small plane. If I ever get a 445... I might have to try this experiment.

One 4Sevens Preon (1xAAA, Cree XP-G R5). It's my EDC, lives on a necklace made of retroreflective nylon cord. Fantastic little light, I may just have to spend $60 buying the upgrade for the new LED model.