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SEM beam alignment: The Happy Place

June 26, 2019June 27, 2019

Aligning Milly’s electron beam is tricky business. It’s a process involving hours (or even days!) of pain and uncertainty that might, just possibly, result in […]

materials microscopy

Porcelain, Tungsten, and other yaks

January 5, 2019January 6, 2019

Yak shaving : Any apparently useless activity which, by allowing you to overcome intermediate difficulties, allows you to solve a larger problem. —Wiktionary I didn’t […]

hackery

The Move

December 26, 2018December 26, 2018

As the manifesto says: If you can’t fix it, you don’t own it. But you don’t truly appreciate how much you own until you need […]

events

Toorcamp 2018

June 30, 2018December 24, 2018

Here’s the talk I gave at Toorcamp 2018 on making an FEG electron emitter.

microscopy

2017: Year in Review

December 26, 2017December 24, 2018

Looks like I haven’t made a lot of time for blogging this year. I’ve been too busy taking photos with Milly! Here are some of […]

microscopy

Experiments in nano manufacturing

January 17, 2017December 24, 20181 Comment

There’s Plenty of Room at the Bottom. —Richard Feynman With the recent demise of Milly’s electron emitter, I attempted to make a new one. Much […]

microscopy

New Year, New Emitter

December 31, 2016January 6, 2019

We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light. […]

genomics

Look into my eyes

August 2, 2016July 10, 2019

What color are your eyes? There are many ways to answer that question. Statistically speaking, they’re probably brown. Unless you’re from northern Europe, in which […]

genomics

My genome: Let me show you it

July 31, 2016December 26, 2018

tl;dr: download Rob’s source code In October 2015 I signed up as a beta tester for Arivale, a Seattle-based “scientific wellness” company. The service is something like […]

electricity

Shrinking on battery power

July 23, 2016December 24, 2018

Remember the hockey puck of doom that powers the Tesla Gun? It’s a ZVS driver (also called a Royer oscillator) that drives a flyback transformer using […]

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