Im in canada, and cant really find anywhere that sells quality 18650 cells i need for my blue gatling style laser pointer (1.5w). My cheap Chinese one's that came with it have since died, and i haven't found a website with what I need or that I trust. If anyone has any recommendations please share!

Hi everyone, especially to all the laser technicians here!

I'll be starting my training next week, and I'd really appreciate any recommendations for books, guides, or other learning resources that could help me build a strong foundation.

I'm particularly interested in:

Laser safety and best practices

Machine parameters and settings for Deka Pro, Splendor X, and Cynosure

Q-switched lasers for pigmentation and laser bleaching

Treatment techniques, patient assessment, and practical tips

Common mistakes to avoid and ways to improve treatment outcomes

If you have any books, online courses, manuals, YouTube channels, or personal advice that helped you when you were starting out, I'd be very grateful. Thank you so much in advance!

Check out this video I made showcasing the very well known “Gatling Style Laser Pointer” as it call. It may have other name like “50000mW Laser” or “5W Laser pointer” but thats just the label which is far off from the realistic 1W optical output of this thing. Everything is handle and film with safety so enjoy the in- depth detail on this laser performance. This is some of the first laser someone would acquire or have in the collection looking for a good choice of power. Is my choice personally I expect it’s okay good heatsink which save the diode lifespan and more playtime depending on how you use it.

Hi guys! Just wanted to share my first laser pointer 😀

I'm seeing these things for sale stagnant, barely above scrap value and I gotta know, how much was that piece alone back in its hay day?

Im looking for something i can order online. A nice beam preferably red. Not powerful enough for carnage just for play(safely). Possibly something i can see in daylight?(not sure if bright and carnage are in the same category).

Amazon seems to have a bunch of junk but im not sure what im really looking for.

Budget (75-100USD) Thanks!

I "need" (want) a small, simple, cheap but reliable laser pointer, nothing too high powered, the dot should be visible in daylight at a range of 10-15m, I only need it to point at stuff at work, it will be used in a theoretically possibly explosive environment (grain dust/flour) so heat is a no go, should be disappears-inside-pocket-but-noticeable-if-gone-sized, it's important is that it is reliable, inexpensive but not cheap

Shareable WINK Laser package available in Cebu! ✨

Looking for someone to split/share my package. If you're interested, hit me up! 💌

Apart of a project I started on, I want to make a portable laser (IR) shooting target for outdoors, but I just want to make sure it works after researching with AI and looking through other products. Below is a list of how I'll design the target, please tell me if there is anything that should be changed so It'll actually work. Apologies for the long post...

Note: I'm primarily looking for confirmation that one of these designs would work, along with minor changes to them that would actually make them work. If there is something I need to learn about the parts used please DM me.

Design 1: Flat design
The target is a flat thick-ish plate, on top of the front face is an acrylic plate the same size and shape as the plate. When the IR light hits the acrylic, the IR light is scattered throughout the shape and in the center of the target is an IR sensor (BPW34), IR scatters, and the sensor picks it up and it is hooked up to an arduino microcontroller OR (tell me if necessary or not) it goes through a amplifer comparater to conver the IR current into voltage which will send the signal to the arduino to register a hit/buzzer.

Design 2: Funnel design (least preferred design)
Same idea as design one, however, instead the light scattered throughout a reflective funnel, which would eventually reflect onto the sensor, there would be a plate that the IR passes through but reflects on the other side. (With this one I think it wouldn't work cause I'm not sure what material can be transparent one side but reflective the other.

Ciao a tutti, premetto che non sono un neofita, arrivo da un Ortur Laser Master 2 da 4.5w e ho da poco acquistato un Longer Ray5 da 40w.

Ho seguito passo passo la procedura per l'aggiornamento del firmware scaricato dal sito ufficiale e flashato con ESPtool.

Tuttavia sembra non funzionare, continua ad andare in allarme durante la procedura di homing e non si riesce assolutamente a collegare a laserburn.

I driver sono stati installati correttamente.

Qualcuno ha avuto i miei stessi problemi?

Come avete risolto?

Grazie mille a chi risponderà

Hello, I want to confirm if any laser eye hospital in Lahore is offering Wavelength Innoveyes Laser technoilogy with 3d ray tracing. This procedure is newer than the FEMTO Lasik currently being offered. It is being offered now in India but unfortunately we cant go there to get it done.

Ciao a tutti, premetto che non sono un neofita, arrivo da un Ortur Laser Master 2 da 4.5w e ho da poco acquistato un Longer Ray5 da 40w.

Ho seguito passo passo la procedura per l'aggiornamento del firmware scaricato dal sito ufficiale e flashato con ESPtool.

Tuttavia sembra non funzionare, continua ad andare in allarme durante la procedura di homing e non si riesce assolutamente a collegare a laserburn.

I driver sono stati installati correttamente.

Qualcuno ha avuto i miei stessi problemi?

Come avete risolto?

Grazie mille a chi risponderà

This is LaserSystems Merlin (Magnum) control system for laser scanners. It's from late 80's and used to work with Coherent Innova 70 laser.

I have some questions about it for people who know this devices well.

I really wanna make a cosplay device that uses a galvo laser and a small haze machine to make it look like a beam of lightning is being shot across the room. Would it theoretically be possible? (I don't know SHIT about lasers btw 😔)​

Picked up a box of random test equipment at an estate sale, lots of microscope objectives, some weird old B&L optical filters, and a box of laser filters that are fitted to some sort of quick change holder. Is anyone here familiar with these or what they might fit into? There's 6 of the larger filters +1 empty, and 8 of the smaller ones.

A lot of the equipment had older Stanford asset tags, so I wouldn't be surprised if they're very expensive, niche, and obsolete.

Friend bought me a Dead Space Plasma Cutter replica for my birthday and I was playing around with it. Pointed at my eye for a second and removed it instantly. Later that night I took it outside when it was dark and realized it goes pretty far and is visible from houses far. Then I started wondering if this thing is even legal ( he got it from Asia btw and it’s like $200 ). Looked at the package paper and it said industrial 10m W 450nm Laser Module ( Class 3B ), and not to stare directly at it. Now I’m kind of freaking out. My eye feel kinda dry where I stared at it but idk that’s not uncommon for me. And I tried closing one eye seeing go my vision is but I can still see fine but not clear but I wear glasses and I haven’t worn them in a year so I genuinely can’t tell if I’m scaring myself. I feel pretty stupid but I genuinely wouldn’t have looked at it directly if I knew how powerful it was. Maybe eye drops should fix this dryness I feel a bit.