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by skynext
Mon May 22, 2017 6:53 pm
Forum: Experimenters' & Innovators' forum
Topic: Optomechanical hybrid lathe
Replies: 6
Views: 1326

Re: Optomechanical hybrid lathe

Yes, i understand some of the issues... first the laser beam geometry, lensing may be required to focus the beam if it is too divergent. I may even have to make an adaptative lensing to control the precise laser beam geometry. And of course, there is the fact that a laser uses radiated energy that w...
by skynext
Mon May 22, 2017 4:27 pm
Forum: Experimenters' & Innovators' forum
Topic: Optomechanical hybrid lathe
Replies: 6
Views: 1326

Optomechanical hybrid lathe

Hello, as a first message on the forum, I had the following design in mind for an edgy tech... Basically it comes down to an hybrid mechanical cutting head mount where the needle is replaced by a laser. However, the design is hybrid because there is still a couple of audio transducers on the head mo...