"Home Made" holography components
"Home Made" holography components
Wow! Those look awesome, how I wish I had your skills! (and machines!)
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holowizard
"Home Made" holography components
Actually, these were all made on what are essentially table-top machines; none of the individual parts of any device are very big...the only serious challenge was the upright post on the beam director. It's 8 1/2 inches tall, and my mill only has about 6 inches of X-axis travel, so it had to be moved in the vise and milled out in two steps. I have another one around here somewhere that I had completely black-anodized, and fitted with broadband 99%+R mirrors...I'll have to dig that up and post a pic or two.
As for skill...that's a bit more difficult to define, but the guy I did my apprenticeship under (George Gebby...the "mad Scotsman", as I used to call him; in three years, I was able to absorb only a fraction of his knowledge...it made me an adequate mold-maker, but an excellent machinist) had a couple of interesting views on that. He said the main difference between a good machinist and a bad one, was, one paid attention to the numbers, and the other didn't. Also, he said "Anybody can make a good part, if he takes enough time, but, it's when you make a mistake, and have to save something, that you find out how good you really are". Plus, my grandfather was a watchmaker, and my father was an engineer for Convair-General Dynamics (both born in Switzerland), so there is something of a technical inclination, and a tradition of excellence in quality, that seems to run in my family; I've tried to keep that going, and I hope it shows in the things I've made.
As for skill...that's a bit more difficult to define, but the guy I did my apprenticeship under (George Gebby...the "mad Scotsman", as I used to call him; in three years, I was able to absorb only a fraction of his knowledge...it made me an adequate mold-maker, but an excellent machinist) had a couple of interesting views on that. He said the main difference between a good machinist and a bad one, was, one paid attention to the numbers, and the other didn't. Also, he said "Anybody can make a good part, if he takes enough time, but, it's when you make a mistake, and have to save something, that you find out how good you really are". Plus, my grandfather was a watchmaker, and my father was an engineer for Convair-General Dynamics (both born in Switzerland), so there is something of a technical inclination, and a tradition of excellence in quality, that seems to run in my family; I've tried to keep that going, and I hope it shows in the things I've made.
"Home Made" holography components
It sure does!holowizard wrote: I've tried to keep that going, and I hope it shows in the things I've made.
Re: "Home Made" holography components
i had to make up a plenum for my latest build , made from a cardboard box, shipping tape...good for "off table" setups otherwise install the fan at the end of a simi-flexible tube!
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Re: "Home Made" holography components
I'm just starting to collect and build stuff, but the open optics collection at Thingiverse http://www.thingiverse.com/jpearce/coll ... rce-optics has a collection of 3D printable stuff that I'm hoping to use for holography.