[sdiy] Laser pointers and/or modules

[Ben Lincoln]

Hi Richard.

The only way I've found to get visible-light laser diodes for a reasonable
amount of money (other than pulling them from other devices) is to do a
group buy, e.g. what the members of http://www.laserpointerforums.com/
will do every once in awhile.

Sometimes they will show up on eBay, but usually the bare diodes there are
near-infrared.

- Ben

On Wed, August 20, 2008 12:09 pm, Richard Wentk said:
> Does anyone have any suggestions for where to buy some >5mW laser
> diodes with collimating lenses for sensible money?
>
> Farnell and Digikey are charging *silly* prices. And while it's easy
> to buy ready made pointers on eBay, but I'm wondering if there's a
> professional source of the diode components I could buy from without
> having to pull apart someone else's product.
>
> Richard