Xiang Zhai has done just that. He ripped the two laser diodes out of a pair of drives and then put them together with some other cheap components, attached a Pi for control and lo and behold he’s ended up with a laser engraver!
Ian Miller followed this tutorial and expanded it a bit and created his own version and published his code:
[…] recantha Xiang Zhai has done just that. He ripped the two laser diodes out of a pair of drives and then put […]