Superbright LED spot
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Lukas Fisher’s got a new post up covering the build of a super bright LED spotlight, including details on his experience with hotplate-based reflow soldering. (link)
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Olympus president pleads guilty, Sony to swoop in?
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Olympus Corp.’s former president Tsuyoshi Kikukawa admitted guilt Tuesday in a cover-up of massive investment losses
There are also reports that Sony may swoop in with about 0.6 billion dollars in…
HelioScan software for imaging
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HelioScan is a LabVIEW-based software suite from Fritjof Helmchen’s group that is specialized for running 2 photon microscopes, and is carefully designed to be modular. This modularity is intended to make it more easily adapted…
LabVIEW Style Guide
LabVIEW is a great tool, but the block diagrams can become a mess if the programmer isn’t careful. This book was recommended to me by David Ferster, whose LabVIEW code is very clean and…
Scientifica’s 2p scope
With its newly introduced scan head, Scientifica’s 2p scope is finally a complete package. They’re happy to sell their modular design in pieces, so this fills the void between fully custom rigs and turnkey systems.
The…
Nice enclosures
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Most project enclosures are cheap and ugly. I challenge anyone to find something from PacTec that Dieter Rams would want in his house.
The following suggestions might not be Rams-worthy either, but they’re a step…
Sequestration = 41% cut in new and competing NIH funding
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It’s hard to find any objective analysis that says that the US government can keep paying its bills without some combination of tax increases and cuts to entitlement programs. It’s also hard to find any objective analysis that would predict that politicians would get reelected for doing such things. With that in mind, congress inacted…
The collective intelligence of world-leading neuroscientists
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That’s who is credited with creating Boston-NeuroTalks (look at the bottom of their page). It turns out that Boston’s a bit of a college town, and thus it’s difficult to keep up with all of…
The Labrigger General Electronics Troubleshooting Guide
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This is a work in progress, please contribute additions, thoughts, and criticism (constructive and otherwise) in the comments.
Step 0. RTFM.
Step 1. Turn it off and back on.
Congrats. There is a 99%…
DIY Superresolution, part III
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Enrico Stefani’s lab at UCLA has a couple of crack engineers on board, Yong Wu and Pedro Felipe Gardeazábal Rodríguez. These two fellows built a custom STED system and have documented the setup on their…
3D printed Titanium at iMaterialize
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Looks good. Should be handy. And a bit pricey. These metal powder-based 3D printing materials aren’t bad. The products are much more brittle than real, solid metal is. But they’re also very light, and more rigid…
DIY Superresolution, part II
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This paper (York et al. 2012) came out earlier this year, but I thought it’s worth highlighting here, give the subject matter.
We present a hybrid technique, multifocal SIM (MSIM), that combines the resolution-doubling characteristics of…
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