SEM beam alignment: The Happy Place
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 […]
Porcelain, Tungsten, and other yaks
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 […]
The Move
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 […]
2017: Year in Review
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 […]
Experiments in nano manufacturing
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 […]
New Year, New Emitter
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. […]
Look into my eyes
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 […]
My genome: Let me show you it
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 […]
Shrinking on battery power
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 […]