Category: Hardware

Sep282012September 28, 2012September 28, 20120Commentby L.

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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Sep202012September 20, 2012October 10, 20121Commentby L.

Scientifica’s 2p scope

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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…

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Sep192012September 19, 2012September 19, 20120Commentby L.

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…

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Sep112012September 11, 2012September 8, 20122Commentsby L.

A custom two photon scope on a wall

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Sep062012September 6, 2012September 6, 20127Commentsby L.

Raspberry Pi – Arduinolike form and price, but with way more power

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Sep052012September 5, 2012September 5, 20122Commentsby L.

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 …

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Sep012012September 1, 2012August 29, 20125Commentsby L.

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…

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Jun292012June 29, 2012June 29, 20126Commentsby L.

Whole embryo imaging

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Drosophila embryos are a fraction of a square mm, and go from fertilization to hatching (as a larva) in about 22 hrs. So it’s possible to image individual embryos in their entirety…

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Jun252012June 25, 2012June 25, 20122Commentsby L.

Introducing the Spectrino

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The Open Hardware wave keeps rolling: MySpectral recently announced the Spectrino – an Arduino based spectrometer. It’s as barebones as spectrometers go, with the small enclosure containing a diffraction grating, CCD light sensor…

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Jun082012June 8, 2012June 18, 20121Commentby L.

Manipulator stand, reasonably priced

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Manipulator stands are priced bizarrely high. The Sutter model above starts at $760. If you want a taller one, or one with a linear slide, the price can go up to $1395 (price list).

This…

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May162012May 16, 2012May 16, 20120Commentby L.

Cages of a different sort

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The last post was about cage-style optomechanics. This post is about Faraday cages.

8020.net

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May142012May 14, 2012May 14, 20122Commentsby L.

Cage systems

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Cage systems, like optical rails, are platforms for constructing custom optical systems.

Thorlabs’ 16 mm, 30 mm, and 60 mm cage systems are well known (shown above). The…

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May102012May 10, 2012May 10, 20122Commentsby L.

Game on

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May102012May 10, 2012May 10, 20123Commentsby L.

Firmata for Arduino

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I’ve referenced Toolduino before. Now I use Firmata more (upon which Toolduino is based). It turns the Arduino into a simple interface, rather than letting it think at all. I find this…

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Apr222012April 22, 2012April 22, 20122Commentsby L.

Light field imaging

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Light field imaging is a very interesting approach to imaging. The idea is to use an array of microlenses in order to capture light coming from many different angles. By storing this data, it…

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