…from your friendly neighborhood bug (~500x).

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 a better microscope imaging experience. T…

‘cause a SEM party got diatoms.

Enjoy some random pollen samples.

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 realize just how lucky I was …

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 to move it. Moving our nine-year-old hackerspace turned out to be the major…

Here’s the talk I gave at Toorcamp 2018 on making an FEG electron emitter: pdf | pptx.

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 my favorites from the last twelve months. Pollen. Animals. New year’s wish…

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 to my surprise, it worked. Turns out making small t…

The quest for an ideal light source. 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. —Not Plato What exactly is an electron…