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Episode: Budget beams – Laser experiments in a hacker lab (eh23)
Description: Science with lasers usually requires significant money. Instead, we use 3d-printing and the cheapest optics money can buy.
We want to do real and useful coherent optics experiments, but without the budget. So we are developing an open-hardware platform of 3d-printed parts and knowhow around accessible optical components.
If you ever wondered how much optomechanics you can replace with plastic parts: We are doing the experiment
In this talk we want to share our current work towards a system of 3d-printable components and cheap optical elements to make laser experiments more accessible.
We started this project from a need to...