--- title: Congratulations To The Frikkin Laser Winners! | daily.dev description: Hackaday announces the winners of its 2026 Frikkin Laser Contest. First place goes to CubeRaman, a 3D-printed Raman spectrometer that identifies materials by... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/congratulations-to-the-frikkin-laser-winners--lahf8ul4l twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Congratulations To The Frikkin Laser Winners! | daily.dev og:description: Hackaday announces the winners of its 2026 Frikkin Laser Contest. First place goes to CubeRaman, a 3D-printed Raman spectrometer that identifies materials by... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/congratulations-to-the-frikkin-laser-winners--lahf8ul4l og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/lAhf8UL4l.png og:image:alt: Congratulations To The Frikkin Laser Winners! og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Congratulations To The Frikkin Laser Winners! **[Hackaday](https://daily.dev/sources/hackaday)** · 4 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Hackaday announces the winners of its 2026 Frikkin Laser Contest. First place goes to CubeRaman, a 3D-printed Raman spectrometer that identifies materials by analyzing laser reflection spectra. Second place is Measuring Microns with Lasers, a DIY laser rangefinder achieving 0.25 μm precision at nearly 5,000 readings per second. Third place is Glow Engine, an art project using a blue laser to scan phosphorescent screens like a slow-motion CRT. Honorable mentions cover laser light shows, a versatile pulsed-laser processing machine, a home speed-of-light measurement, a 3D-printed optical cavity interferometer, and a laser bandsaw. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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