Total time: 5.7 hr
Making fundamental breadboard that all the other parts are gonna rest on! This serves as the main 'breadboard' that everything else will be screwed onto. This is made to be able to host four mounting pins and is only 80x80mm so that people don't have to print out a lot of area they won't use (it's modular so people can make it bigger if they need to easily). The tolerances are kinda high because 3D printing, but it's easily editable because the tolerance is made with an offset on a triangle in the sketch.
Time: 35m
Making the mounting stick for things in multiple lengths!
It's a weird threading because fusion dosent want to work with me but also honestly who cares? You should not be using metal screws with this since they're expensive and this is just plastic. You don't need the strength of metal and the tolerances will be bad no matter what. Plus, you can easily model threads for this since it's just a weird fusion setting, not some esoteric threading only obtainable by digging into fifteen menus on the fusion threading tool. Time: 20m
Making a general purpose platform that attaches to four anchor points (can be used to glue on any mounts not designed with holes that I may design later)! If there's something oddly shaped or some heatsink that can rest flat on it, this is perfect (like some of the standard aluminium heatsinks that you can get with cheap high powered lasers).
Time: 10m
Making laser and mirror mounts! Made two TO-18 mounts (most common laser housing architecture), one threaded and one unthreaded, made a mirror mount and a mirror screw. The mirror screw has a square handle to help when doing small adjustments to align the mirrors properly. There's also two screw holes to help with that too in case you want it placed more precisely than just against one surface.
Time: 1.5hr
Made a sample construction and cleaning up the github! Added more detail to the journal, wrote an actual readme, and worrying over messing anything up lol.
Sample construction image:
This design is a beam adder, assuming you use the proper mirrors and one where its partially reflective (to actually pass the beam through). Time: 3hr
Made a simple platform. I was originally going to add slots for things like x-cubes or other blocks, but since it won't be moving around much I didn't think there was a point and just left it simple. If you need, just keep it down with a peice of tape or something.
Time: 10 mins?
Modeled in the lasers and mirrors to the example circuit and specified the type of PLA in the BOM.
Time: 15 mins