I finished dismantling a broken DVD player. My main goal for most of my (one way) dismantals is usually to salvage as many parts as possible, but today I was after the laser diode in particular. With some effort I was able to safely extract it, as well as about 20+ components. I still need to test out the diode, as I've never hooked one up before.
I also played around with using the lenses in the laser reader module as Macro lenses for my cell phone camera, and it worked really well. As you can see in the photos, I took a picture of the laser diode. The true size of that is quite a bit smaller than my pinky fingernail. In another picture you see Her Majesty The Queen's eye on the front of a Canadian $20 bill.
I haven't forgotten about my RoboQuad project by the way. More on that to come soon!
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