Digital Designs and Scientific Hardware - Open-Source Lab: How to Build Your Own Hardware and Reduce Research Costs - page 170

FIGURE 6.6 Open-source optical rail fabricated from OpenBeam using a printed magnetic
base.
FIGURE 6.7 Open-source optical rail fabricated from OpenBeam using printed T-brackets.
Optical components are atached via 8-mm-diameter smooth rods centered directly above
the beam using a simple rod holder 18 ( Figure 6.8 ) or via an offset rod holder 19 ( Figure 6.9 ) de-
pending on your experiment. In some experimental setups, a vibration-isolated optical table
is a necessity; however, for many experiments, this is costly overengineering. While avoiding