The best Science is Mad Science

Here’s an image of a gold calibration target. To give you an idea of the scale, that line representing 100 nanometers is roughly the diameter of […]

Megapixel images from an analog SEM

I recently posted my first batch of photos from Milly. While I am happy with her beam performance, I was dissatisfied with the digital photo […]

I recently got Milly the big SEM online. She had a ton off issues that I’ll chronicle in future posts. But rather than dwell on her […]

I’m in the process of upgrading the brain in the laser from a cheap (and recently deceased) Chinese special to a new design based on […]

Milly is coming along nicely. I believe we’re over the vacuum difficulties. She’s buzzing along at a nice deep vacuum in the SPEC, INT, and GUN […]

After several days of looking, the cause of the trouble proved to be a broken lead on a thermocouple line. On to debugging the vacuum […]

Laser robot making wooden robots for an aluminum robot that makes brass robots… #slavetothemachines

Happy Holidays! Here is a 2mm stainless steel screw. It’s sitting on a standard, non-shrunken quarter for scale. Here it is under Meryl’s beam at […]

Meryl was a little disheveled when she arrived at the shop. She had been in storage for a few years, and while mostly complete, she […]