I am trying to build a system in which there is a transmitter and a receiver. transmitter will send a signal via rf tx and fr rx receives and passes signal to uC and this turns on laser module. Now laser module has to be high powered laser because this has to be used to burn some material
pls see what i have made and let me know if i am going wrong: https://prntscr.com/1azb81
i read somewhere that if laser is high powered theen msp430 might not be able to drive the circuit of the laser. please clarify this.
thank you jayanth for all these links. I have gone through them before. First one is IR laser, i need visible light one for safety.
iC-HT is a wonderful product but it is just a driver i need to interface uC with it. will msp430 be ok? also it has very less online support, if i am stuck i have no one to ask.
shaiko, thanks for replying. i will be using **broken link removed**
Can I use Arduino development board for this project. I am a vlsi chip designing student and very new to all this. This project is silly but I want to make it work
MSP430 has input voltage range of 1.8-3.6V and laser driver requires 5-6V
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Is it possible to use uC to just turn on a switch which connects battery and laser driver?
You can see from the picture that the laser driver has only 2 wire connected to the PCB. These are clearly the 5V power input wires - not some 5V control signal...
you can use PWM out to control the status of laser, 100% duty cycle means completely on, 0% duty cycle off and the intensity can be controlled by intermediate duty cycles, u need only two wire connection for this purpose