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PrintedLabs – 3D printable optical experiment equipment

by aethertap on 3/16/25, 11:05 AM with 12 comments

• by thenobsta on 3/17/25, 10:50 PM

  Related cool diy-ish optical stuff...

  A friend sent me this simple design for a raman spectrometer [1].

  And some 3D-printable cage optics for when alignment is really important [2].

  [1]: https://hackteria.org/wiki/images/a/a0/MobPhone_RamanSpec_20...

  [2]: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S246806721...

• by nativeit on 3/18/25, 2:52 AM

  Tangentially related: https://openflexure.org/

• by nbernard on 3/18/25, 6:22 AM

  For those interested, there is also OpenUC2 on this niche: https://github.com/openUC2/UC2-GIT It would be interesting to see how the two systems compare.

• by elephant81 on 3/18/25, 1:24 AM

  what is the best plastic to print these lenses from? I've found over time all of the clear prints I've don't suffer from UV degradation.