Pinpoint Laser Systems

10/08/2026

Pinpoint Capture just got a major update.

Capture connects your Pinpoint Laser Microgage straight to a Windows PC, so you can watch live readings, record measurements as you preform your alignment tasks, and send the results to Excel.

A few highlights:
Large live vertical and horizontal readings with a beam position plot
Up to six receiver channels, each with its own settings
Record Helper: tap the spacebar at each station for stepped measurements, or log automatically at a set interval
Built-in alignment routines

Connect any Pinpoint alignment system by USB, or go wireless with the Laser Microgage PRO Plus.

Precision alignment is only as good as the data you can trust and share. Capture makes that part easy.

https://pinpointlaser.com/pinpoint-capture-software/

10/01/2026

The U.S. Navy just ordered 30 ships with no crew aboard.

Three Louisiana shipyards will each build 10 medium unmanned surface vessels in a deal worth about $1.2 billion. Each must cover 2,500 nautical miles at 25 knots in rough seas while carrying up to 25 metric tons. In testing, prototypes ran 26 hours and more than 360 nautical miles on a single command from shore.

With no one aboard to make adjustments, these ships have to be built right the first time. The Pinpoint Laser Systems team is excited to watch this new fleet take shape.

https://news.usni.org/2026/09/29/3-louisiana-shipyards-to-build-30-drone-ships-in-navy-musv-deal

Three Louisiana-based shipyards will build unmanned surface vessels for the U.S. Navy following recent at-sea testing, the service announced Tuesday. The three companies – Saronic, HII and Galliano Marine Service – will each build 10 medium unmanned surface vessels, or MUSVs, at about $40 millio...

09/24/2026

Commonwealth Fusion Systems just ran the full cryogenic system for its SPARC tokamak at its operating temperature of 8 kelvin, colder than the surface of Pluto.

That system circulates supercritical helium to keep SPARC's superconducting magnets cold enough to bottle up a plasma hotter than the core of the sun.

SPARC is being assembled in Devens, Massachusetts, with first plasma targeted for 2027 and net energy gain, more energy out than in, shortly after.

Great to see work like this happening right up the road. We're excited to follow it.

The interior of our SPARC fusion machine will be a place of extreme temperature contrast. Right next to the hottest place in the solar system — the chamber where fusion occurs — we’ll also have magnets that are among the solar system’s coldest places.

09/17/2026

We're hiring!

Pinpoint Laser Systems is looking for an Application Engineer to join our team in Peabody, MA. If you enjoy solving real-world alignment challenges and working directly with customers across industrial markets, we'd love to hear from you.

Apply here: https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/4460630898/

Apply for Application Engineer at Pinpoint Laser Systems, Inc. in Peabody, MA. Full-time Entry level role. See responsibilities, qualifications, and similar jobs on LinkedIn.

09/10/2026

IMTS 2026 kicks off next week, and this year brings something new: a full Industrial AI Arena dedicated to putting artificial intelligence to work on the manufacturing floor.

The scope is broad. Quality and inspection, process optimization, downtime reduction, cybersecurity, ergonomics, safety, and demand forecasting. There's a one-day Industrial AI Conference alongside it focused on practical applications rather than theory.

AI keeps gaining traction in manufacturing, and we're watching these solutions closely to see where they can move the industry forward.

https://www.imts.com/show/attractions.cfm

08/27/2026

Rhode Island's REGENT just closed a $240 million Series B to scale up Seaglider manufacturing.

The Viceroy is a 12-passenger all-electric craft that floats on its hull in the harbor, rises onto hydrofoils through the chop, then flies in ground effect within one wingspan of the water. Up to 180 mph. And despite the wings, it's certified by the Coast Guard as a vessel, not by the FAA as an aircraft.

Holding tolerances across hull, foil, and flight loads is a hard engineering problem. We're excited to follow where this one goes.

https://www.regentcraft.com/news/regent-secures-240-million-series-b-funding-to-scale-seaglider-manufacturing-and-transform-maritime-mobility

08/20/2026

The 90-Line PRO family is here. Penta-prism right angle beam benders in a new 2" x 2" housing that matches the beam centerline of Pinpoint transmitters and receivers. Square to 0.0006°, which is 0.001 in. over 8 ft. The family comes in three options: the standard 90-Line PRO, the 90-Line-D PRO with a built-in receiver that actively corrects for misalignment, or the 90-Line-DW PRO with the same capabilities in a wireless version.

Full lineup:

Get 90-Line Right Angle Beam Benders, which are right angle laser alignment and measuring tools.

08/04/2026

The DARPA Lift Challenge kicks off this week in Dayton, Ohio, and you can watch the whole thing live. Teams from across the country are pushing to hit a 4:1 payload-to-weight ratio, a benchmark that could reshape vertical-lift aviation.

The Pinpoint Laser Systems team will be tuning in, and we're especially looking forward to seeing Sherman Aeronautics take the field. Their design is unlike anything else in the competition. Picture two winged aircraft tethered wingtip to wingtip, powering up and pulling each other into a massive rotating circle. It's a genuinely creative rethink of how lift can be generated, and we can't wait to see it fly.

Check out the livestream: https://www.youtube.com/live/DIoHi2Pxi-A

See Sherman Aeronautics' design in action: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXRpFM55eQg

Good luck to every team taking to the skies.

A video of our RotorWings lifting 55lb in a lap for the DARPA Lift ...

07/30/2026

Something new is coming to the Pinpoint Laser Systems lineup: an enhanced 90-Line series. Same square reference you trust, now in a 2" x 2" housing matched to the centerline of your Microgage setup. The new 90-Line series lands soon.

07/23/2026

NASA's X-59 just hit its target: Mach 1.4 at 55,000 feet.

Those aren't arbitrary numbers. They're the exact conditions the aircraft will fly when it starts passing over U.S. communities so NASA can measure how people perceive its "quiet sonic thump" instead of a sonic boom. That data goes to regulators working on new noise standards, which could reopen supersonic flight over land.

The whole concept rests on shaping the airframe so shock waves never merge into a boom. When the geometry is the technology, precision isn't a detail. It's the entire design.

Our team at Pinpoint is excited to see where these community flights end up. Fingers crossed the X-59 makes a pass over the Boston area.

https://www.nasa.gov/blogs/quesst/2026/06/12/x-59-blog-061226/