Laser Scanning Microscope from Blu-ray Player #2: Shooting Images 

You did a very impressive tool!! I can't believe anyone can do that with a blu-ray laser!!

WOW!!! Having ripped apart many blu ray drives to harvest the 405nm diodes so I can use them for powerful laser pointers I know the optics train is complex and compact. I always thought those photodiodes were super simple , didnt think they were this complex. Laser pointers... Yeah, pointless hobby but I learned a lot doing it. Anyway, this is absolutly ingenious. To pull this off you really need to have a whole host of skills along with persistance. Not many people could have done this. BTW, I found this on the picks for you feature of Google News. It linked to an article about this project in Gizmodo. Not sure where you live but in the US Gizmodo is pretty big. Congrats!

We need a part three so badly!!!! I am incredibly impressed.

This is great! Excellent job

THis is the best electronics repurposing video I've seen. Brilliant.

A very clever idea, brilliantly executed. Superb!

Seriously next level! I've dabbled with laser microscopes for years professionally and personally as a hobby in my lab. I love all types of microscopy/ spectroscopy/science type DIY nerd stuff. I love a lot of the other iterations shown on RU-vid and online.... there have been some great examples over the years. However, I think yours has gotten some of the best results I've seen. And it's probably the most well done. Really really impressive and I'm very glad to have found your channel. Going to try to set up a few from your design next to a professional laser microscope I was lucky enough to win at an industrial auction. I used to go to those all the time... It's one of the only ways regular folks can't afford photonics/optical science equipment. It really is a golden age for science and technology equipment from government auctions, industrial auctions, and even college academia clearances and auctions Would be cool if you could look at the atomic Force microscope next . And there are several other pieces of gear that are nearly untouchable for most folks outside of professional labs. Would love to see some DIY stuff along the same lines. several other very interesting science implements that could be possible to DIY in a small home laboratory. I wish nothing but the best for you and your channel and we'll look forward to watching your progress!

Super awesome. This is on another level. Excellent work done. Thanks for sharing.

This is fantastic, thanks so much. What an incredible reuse of old electronics. I'm really very excited

This reminds me of messing about with the optical sensors in computer mice back in the day and getting the camera data out of them.

Hats off... Amazing project..! Working, producing great results as well.

Much respect for you, Doctor Volt. Very impressive.

Very nice idea and good realization!

Cool project. Very good engineering work.

Wooow!!!..you proyect it's great!!...and very motivating!!...thank you very much!!

This is mighty cool! Kinda want to see some sand and/or microbes in there :3

What great fun, I guess with a nano position stage, you could get closer to the 500nm resolution. I must find an old blu ray drive a rip one apart. Just the kind of project I love - one that make me want to rip things apart to see what I can do with the parts !

fantastic. I love this

Amazing!!

Good job.

excellent video, well done and thank you. looking forward to the next video. i would love to see a scan of a piece of a vinyl record if one can be found

Excelente! Eres un Genio! 👍

Very nice! With the controls you have built, you could next investigate exposure stacking and focus stacking of the subject to enhance resolution.

WOW!

Hat sich gelohnt, mal wieder vorbeizuschauen. Sehr cooles Projekt! Wie kommt man auf so eine Idee?

Wonderful hack. If you make more videos using this unit could you try examining some biological specimens - microbes or bacteria? Getting good resolution, above 1000x, is difficult with my light microscope.

What an amazing work. I am working on a project to build a similar scanning microscope. I have a high resolution confocal system connected to its controller. Now I want to integrate it to a motorized xy stage so i can do scans and stitch images. But I dont know how to do this. Someone suggested I need to connected the stage encoder to the imaging controller so the two systems are in sync and the imaging data output can be read and stitched. But I dont know how to do this either. If you can make a video explaining how you did scanning, that would be very helpful. Thanks.

Quite amazing results so far. I wonder what would be the smallest feature size it is capable of scanning given the 130nm process on bluray disks.

You are a genius!!!!!! O:

Can u make x-ray microscope for live blood analysis?

Excellent. Can you actually get a 3D scan out of this data?

Amazing project! So the scanning process is done in conjunction by the lens magnetic mount and the stepper motor, isn't it? Do you think you could record/burn/print the target using the laser should it be powerful enough?

Nice work! IIt would be interesting to see how far you can push the resolution. Have you considered a galvanometer to give finer control over the laser?

Neato!

Greetings, congratulations on the project. do you have the schamatic to add it to the PC?

Amazing works on the laser scanning microscope. I have been trying to replicate this project and having trouble with the OPU's PDIC output part. I able to get the software, laser, voice coils working but the part where get the SUM and FES did not go as expected. Do you have any ways to test the PDIC and what is the expected voltage and current from the PDIC output for each Ua,Ub,Uc and Ud pins?

Very interesting. How do you get such a nice image when the FES signal is so sensitive to vibration? Wouldnt the image be full of vibration noise? Did you lock the FES with a PID control. Even so, wouldnt the correction signal from the PID loop contain the vibration noise?

Sir, thanks for your work. I have a question, why do you connect only one side movement to coil TPIC FR+ to L293, another direction is not possible to move?

Ese nivel de aumento lo veo sin necesidad de hacer tanto fandango , pensé que podríamos ver bacterias we

Am I right that you didn't use the voice coils for scanning at all? Could you use them to do "micro stepping" and scan the area in between the steps of the linear screw? That way you should get much higher resolution.

Hi, I want to record an analog audio file on a Blu-ray disc and then read it using a laser, in your project, how is focusing on the scanned object going?

What is the magnification of the microscope?

is it possible to increase the scan area?

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Why can't I make the connection between the software and the esp32 board? I was able to upload the arduino to the board, do I need to change something in the board's firmware for the WI-FI connection?

I'm currently in the process of ordering a finished PCB. I have a question about what kind of ribbon cable this is or what kind of adapter.Is there a name for this?

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Have you tried micro-stepping? That might be easier than a new spindle, but needs a capable stepper controller.

I wish you could transplant a blu-ray laser into an old laserdisc player!

What about biological sample like blood smear?

Source code and schematics?

What is the maximum area this can scan?

I wonder what qualifications you have and what you do for a living? You seem to know a bit of everything.

yo dude suck nice i love this. cant wait

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it is nonsense to move the laserdiode by stepingmotors. You have to move the laserbeam with mirrors

9:38 "Like this video or I won't make a follow-up." This feels like being in middle school again.

Wtf it wil not be useful to observe bacterias ,all the effort that you have make is unusual

Interesting idea, but its resolution looks much worse than what you got with the dissecting microscope you used at the beginning, so it's kind of useless