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Completion of a Green Laser!


And I've finally managed to put together a sturdy working green laser!
Took me a while to modify the housing of a flashlight to accommodate the green laser module! Big thanks to Mong for helping me go down to the machine shop to get the heatsink machined! It's about 50mW, which is close to 100x the power of a normal pointer. Better pointers give close to 5mW and so this would be 10x more powerful. But most pointers as you would see have a rating of <1mW.

It IS dangerous in case you are wondering. Shining at night out into the sky, you can see the beam quite clearly. Looking directly into it � instant permanent blindspot in your eye. Worst of all is that a person's hands would not be steady, so the blindspot will be quite large, and concentrated on ur foeva, which is even worse. In short, I think I should be getting laser safety goggles soon.

Here are some pics:


21:15 19 Aug 2009
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