[Crouching tiger, hidden Walken. Hypnotic, isn't it? If you’ve never seen Christopher Walken in Puss in Boots, add it to your queue right now. That’s him as Puss, craftily stalking a bird for supper. …

[Gold particles on carbon at x50,000 Here’s an image of a gold calibration target. To give you an idea of the scale, that line representing 100 nanometers is roughly the diameter of the HIV virus…

I recently posted my first batch of photos from Milly. While I am happy with her beam performance, I was dissatisfied with the digital photo quality. Until now: It's amazing what a difference a cheap&…

I recently got Milly the big SEM online. She had a ton off issues that I’ll chronicle in future posts. But rather than dwell on her past, let’s see what she can do. Remember that 2mm stainless sc…

Milly is coming along nicely. I believe we’re over the vacuum difficulties. She’s buzzing along at a nice deep vacuum in the SPEC, INT, and GUN chambers. Last night the computer finally booted up…

[Reconnect the broken black wire, and away we go! After several days of looking, the cause of the trouble proved to be a broken lead on a thermocouple line. On to debugging the vacuum system!

Laser robot making wooden robots for an aluminum robot that makes brass robots… #slavetothemachines

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