Collaborate Disseminate
We’re going to start this post with a stern warning: building a laser engraver that can fit in your pocket is probably not a wise idea. Without any safety interlocks …read more Continue reading Interesting Optics Make This Laser Engraver Fit in a Pocket
Counter-drone systems typically attack a UAV’s radio control or GPS systems, disabling pilot control as well as pre-programmed missions. But British defense tech company QinetiQ has now demonstrated a laser-controlled drone these systems can’t stop.Con… Continue reading World’s first laser-controlled drone easily evades countermeasures
Sometimes a gizmo seems too cheap to be true. You know there’s just no way it’ll work as advertised — but sometimes it’s fun to find out. Thankfully, if that …read more Continue reading Putting a Cheap Laser Rangefinder Through Its Paces
Everyone should know by now that we love to follow up on projects when they make progress. It’s great to be able to celebrate accomplishments and see how a project …read more Continue reading Collaborative Effort Gets Laser Galvos Talking G-Code
On vacation, we went to see a laser show – one of the old school variety that combines multiple different lasers of many different colors together into a single beam, …read more Continue reading When is One Pixel Cooler than Millions?
At this point, 3D printers are nearly everywhere. Schools, hackerspaces, home workshops, you name it. Most of these machines are of the extruded-filament variety, better known as FDM or Fused …read more Continue reading Extruded Resin FDM Printing (With Lasers!)
When it comes to trolling eBay for cool stuff, some people have all the luck. Whereas all we ever seem to come across is counterfeit chips and obviously broken gear …read more Continue reading Inside an eBay Marking Laser
There are many wonderful places we’d like to visit in the universe, and probably untold numbers more that we haven’t even seen or heard of yet. Unfortunately…they’re all so darn …read more Continue reading Laser Propulsion Could Satisfy Our Spacecraft’s Need For Speed
Mosquitoes tend to be seen as an almost universal negative, at least in the lives of humans. While they serve as a food source for plenty of other animals and …read more Continue reading Bug Eliminator Zaps with a Laser
[Les] from [Les’ Lab] has designed a driver for laser diodes up to 10 watts, and decided to show us how it operates, tells us what we should keep in …read more Continue reading Laser Driver Design Keeps Safety First