The Quarter Shrinker returns
Back in 2009, I was one of several folks that built the coin shrinker at Hackerbot Labs. After several hundred firings and sitting in a closet […]
SEM FTW: Meryl lives again
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 […]
A tale of two microscopes
I recently became the proud owner of a couple of discarded JEOL scanning electron microscopes. The big one (“Milly“) is a JSM-6320F from the early […]
DIY LN2
Here’s a very nicely done DIY liquid nitrogen generator from Ben Krasnow, the guy who brought you the DIY scanning electron microscope. Great build!
DIY scanning electron microscope
Check out this amazing SEM build. It’s beautifully made and well filmed. Can’t wait for the follow-up posts!
HOWTO make an Ultra High Vacuum
Who thought it would take so much work to make nothing at all? http://www.cae2k.com/howto.html
Talk at Ada’s Technical: success!
The talk went very well. There was much animated discussion, and electrical zapping was had by all. Thank you Ada’s for having me, and thanks […]
Bussard on polywell fusion
Here is the classic Google Tech Talk from Robert Bussard (yes, the ramjet guy). In it he talks about a design for a novel fusion […]