I went home for the weekend, so I decided to test out my new 808nm diode with the existing crystal set, which looks like this: Looking from right to left, there’s a spot for the cmount diode to be mounted onto the heatsink.  The output from this...

Finally, I have a chance to start discussing a project that has been brewing in the back of my head since July, when I purchased a broken portable laser for peanuts.  My original plan was just to refurbish the beaten up host and replace the damaged...

In about a month, this is how much dust builds up on the filters of my intake fans: Yuck.  If those filters (four in total) hadn’t been there, all that dust would be in my computer obstructing airflow.  Still, the filters can’t keep all the dust out...

… but you may have already figured that out.

Okay, most of my recent entries have been laser-related.  I promise that this will be my last one for a while.  In January, I plan to start work on my homemade, TEC-tuned DPSS green laser, where I’ll try to get as much green as I possibly can out of...