Tag Archives: K40

K40 Gadget – time of flight distance measurement

I have received a couple of requests for details of the gadget shown below. This is a beta version – the final version will be housed in a box with the offset set using a potentiometer. However, this version using … Continue reading

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K40 laser – Part 3 – yet more ‘making it work at all’!

The saga continued! My intention was to add a few bells and whistles to the K40 – a new control panel with temperature indicators for the inflow and outflow of water from the laser, a flow indicator, a voltmeter showing … Continue reading

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The K40 laser – Part 2 – upgrading (aka making it work at all!)

It soon became apparent that the K40 was not going to be that useful unless several upgrades were made. First of all, the useless bed/clamp thingee that is supplied with the machine is way too small. It might be OK … Continue reading

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The K40 laser – Part 1 – commissioning

This is not the usual sort of blog post that I make on this site. Normally, those posts are restricted to the use of electronics to enable some or other aspect of photography or just to photography or electronics alone. … Continue reading

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