Drawing Tablet Controls Laser In Real-Time

Some projects need no complicated use case to justify their development, and so it was with [Janne]’s BeamInk, which mashes a Wacom pen tablet with an xTool F1 laser engraver with the help of…

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Using A Fiber Laser To Etch 0.1 Mm PCB Traces

Creating PCBs at home is quite easy these days (vias not withstanding), but even the best DIY methods usually can’t match the resolution offered by commercial PCB production lines. Large trac…

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Building A Laser-Driven Photoacoustic Speaker

An MRI scan is never a pleasant occasion – even if you aren’t worried about the outcome, lying still in a confined, noisy space for long periods of time is at best an irksome experience. For hearin…

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Popsickle sticks... truly the universal crafting tool!

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Popsicle sticks... truly the universal crafting tool!

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Popsickle sticks... truly the universal crafting tool!

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Fiber Optic Lamp Modified To Be Scarily Bright

[Brainiac75] is a fan of fiber optic lamps, except for one thing—they’re often remarkably dim. Thus, they set out to hack the technology to deliver terrifying amounts of light while still ret…

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The Random Laser

When we first heard the term “random laser,” we did a double-take. After all, most ordinary sources of light are random. One defining characteristic of a traditional laser is that it em…

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Michelson Interferometer Comes Home Cheap

We suspect there are three kinds of people in the world. People who have access to a Michelson Interferometer and are glad, those who don’t have one and don’t know what one is, and a ve…

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