2026 Frikkin Lasers Contest: Steampunk, 360 O-Scope Does it with Tubes

https://hackaday.com/2026/06/17/2026-frikkin-lasers-contest-steampunk-360-o-scope-does-it-with-tubes/

#Maker #DIY #Lasers

Early Bird Registration – EUROPHOTON 2026

Registration is open for this photonics conference on solid-state, fibre, and waveguide light sources. Join researchers and industry to explore advances in lasers and optics.

📅 21–25 Sept 2026, Arcachon
🔗 https://www.europhoton.org/

#Photonics #Lasers

We bring Fraunhofer HHI experts in hybrid photonic integration, silicon nitride platforms, and narrow linewidth lasers to ECIO 2026!
Meet our researchers: Klara Mihov, Csongor Keuer, Tianwen Qian to learn how we advance integration platforms and sensor technologies for smarter, faster, and more secure comms. 🔬✨

All details: https://www.hhi.fraunhofer.de/en/events/ecio-2026.html 🌍🔗

#ECIO2026 #FraunhoferHHI #HybridIntegration #Sensing #Photonics #Lasers #CommunicationSystems

Slowly finding time to go over some cool shoots from last week.

📷 #FujiFilm #XT5
🔭XF35/f2

#Photography #CinematicPhotography #Atmospheric #LightAndShadow #Lasers #SXSWLondon

what I wanted to be doing: recurrent neural networks on laser distance matrix data

what I am doing: debugging i2c

#i2c #tildagon #lasers

Weekend Reading from TechAptitude!

One of our most popular posts - LASERS in SPACE! :-)

U.S. Space Force is deploying space based optical/laser communications as the primary network/data transport layer for its Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture (PWSA).

Check out the details here: https://techaptitude.substack.com/p/us-space-forces-laser-mesh-network #Space #DoD #PWSA #Lasers #OpticalNetworks #Communications #USSpaceForce #USSF #LasersinSpace #TechAptitude