How about a nice game of chess?
This developed as a spinoff from the hardware and controllers I'm designing for a range of nixie clocks and watches as a 'simple' project that wouldn't need much software to…
Updates
Sorry I haven't posted recently but there have just been too many projects on the go at once and nothing ahs been getting finished, the dreaded feature creep attacks anything…
At last – the fusion reactor….
Well it's about time I got around to it, it's over 12 years now since I first came across the idea and after all scratchbuilt lasers just aren't cool anymore,…
Free-D (almost)
The title is a little misleading as I already had most of the parts available, if you have to buy from scratch it may not be cheap. This is simply…
My second homemade CO2 laser
Second scratchbuilt laser started in 2000 and abandoned in 2001, quite a bit more advanced than the first using a 10mm laser cut frame and 10mm perspex mounting blocks with…
A real CO2 laser
I was called in to repair this laser about 4 years ago. The turbine had been connected with the phases reversed and had sucked oil from the vacuum pump into…
First CO2 laser
My first CO2 laser built back in 1998-9. Using 22mm copper fittings and 22mm borosilicate glass epoxied with JB weld. It ran for about 3 hours of operating time before…
Cheap DPSS laser pointer in bits
Pulled this apart back in 2003 to post on alt.lasers