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10th October 2010, 12:49
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| Madshrimp  Join Date: May 2002 Location: 7090/Belgium
Posts: 78,416
 |  Build a cutting laser from an old PC [Drake Anthony] makes building a cutting laser from a PC look easy, and it seems like it actually is. Almost everything you need can be found in a dead desktop unit. The diode is pulled from a DVD writer (16x or faster), with the power supply unit, and heat sinks from the processor and GPU being used as well. You’ll also need a focusing lens (just a few dollars), some thermal glue, an LM317, a resistor, and a pair of protective goggles matching the laser diode’s wavelength. http://hackaday.com/2010/09/30/build...rom-an-old-pc/
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12th October 2010, 11:52
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| [M] Reviewer  Join Date: Nov 2004
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  | You can also try blue-ray laser diode, seems to be even more powerfull  |
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