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iphone proved impossible. Will have to improvise some sort of fixture for it. Webcam on desk monitor seems more promising. Not sure why I'm getting reflection artifacts. I think interior of the thing isn't nonreflective enough perhaps.
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Getting some diffraction gratings soon. Might try to make my own. Interesting question… those numbers *say* 4, 5, 6, 7… supposedly 100s of nanometers, but how do I know? What if the experts have been lying to me all along? What if there’s a conspiracy to rig the scale?
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I could calibrate the yellow sodium line with a candle and some salt on a needle, but again I have to take their 3rd for it. Only way is to check the derivation from the grating geometry and measure the grating line spacing myself… supposedly 13.5k lines per inch.
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I vaguely recall learning the operating principles of diffraction in high school. Some shit about waves and angles. But tbh I’ve completely forgotten it. Need to brush up.
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Really weird that I can’t find a good broad spectrum light source at home. All my lamps are CFLs or LEDs, and my workshop also has only LEDs. Gonna have to actually find a small incandescent lightbulb somewhere. These things might soon be hard to find.
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Made a lens holder. Idea is to run it on an aluminum square tube to make an optical bench but I got the tolerance of square hole wrong so it doesn’t fit. Lens sits nicely though
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Success! Modified design to be to have a clampable top. Now to make similar fixtures for other lenses, mirrors, light source, screen… I have a cunning plan to bend the light path with right prisms.
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