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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SEM FTW: Meryl lives again
December 24, 2014Happy Holidays! Here is a 2mm stainless steel screw. It’s sitting on a standard, non-shrunken quarter for scale. Here it…
A tale of two microscopes
November 23, 2014I recently became the proud owner of a couple of discarded JEOL scanning electron microscopes. The big one (“Milly“) is…
DIY scanning electron microscope
March 23, 2011Check out this amazing SEM build. It’s beautifully made and well filmed. Can’t wait for the follow-up posts!
Kink instability
November 13, 2010Who knew that studying plasma physics could be so stimulating?
HOWTO make an Ultra High Vacuum
October 10, 2010Who thought it would take so much work to make nothing at all? http://www.cae2k.com/howto.html
Talk at Ada’s Technical: success!
September 19, 2010The talk went very well. There was much animated discussion, and electrical zapping was had by all. Thank you Ada’s…
Bussard on polywell fusion
September 12, 2010Here is the classic Google Tech Talk from Robert Bussard (yes, the ramjet guy). In it he talks about a…