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The Quarter Shrinker returns

July 21, 2016

Back in 2009, I was one of several folks that built the coin shrinker at Hackerbot Labs.  After several hundred firings…

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microscopy, physics

SEM FTW: Meryl lives again

December 24, 2014

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

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microscopy, physics

A tale of two microscopes

November 23, 2014

I recently became the proud owner of a couple of discarded JEOL scanning electron microscopes. The big one (“Milly“) is…

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chemistry, physics, science

DIY LN2

June 16, 2011

Here’s a very nicely done DIY liquid nitrogen generator from Ben Krasnow, the guy who brought you the DIY scanning…

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electricity, physics

DIY scanning electron microscope

March 23, 2011

Check out this amazing SEM build. It’s beautifully made and well filmed. Can’t wait for the follow-up posts!

electricity, physics

Kink instability

November 13, 2010

Who knew that studying plasma physics could be so stimulating?

physics

HOWTO make an Ultra High Vacuum

October 10, 2010

Who thought it would take so much work to make nothing at all? http://www.cae2k.com/howto.html

electricity, events, physics, radio, science

Talk at Ada’s Technical: success!

September 19, 2010

The talk went very well. There was much animated discussion, and electrical zapping was had by all. Thank you Ada’s…

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electricity, physics

Bussard on polywell fusion

September 12, 2010

Here is the classic Google Tech Talk from Robert Bussard (yes, the ramjet guy). In it he talks about a…

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