On the topic of the recent app post, I’ve been thinking about an old blog post from Peter Keane. The of his post is, “What is Data’s Killer App?” In it, he pondered the problem of data management.
After a not entirely apt analogy to HTML, Keane suggested that there is no killer app…
You probably caught the article about the group who runs their laser-trapping experiments using an app they wrote for iOS on the iPad. This sparked a commentary about apps in science. What about some other apps for handheld and tablet computing?
Reference organization
In general, when it comes to…
A while back Labrigger covered some sources for alternative mechanics. Here’s a new one. MakerBeam is an inexpensive kit of construction rails aka T-slot bars. This would be a…
Let me tell you a little story.
The place is the CONFOCALMICROSCOPY listserv.
The time is 1997.
A query asks how to mount fluorescent beads from Molecular Probes in order to image…
To revisit an earlier post on mini-oscilloscopes, how about an iPad oscilloscope?
It’s not available just yet, but Oscium will soon start selling the iMSO-104, a peripheral add-on for the iPad,…
Seeed Studio repurposed parts for cheap MP3 players and made a production miniature oscilloscope, the DSO nano. I like this small tool and bought one of the first iterations (see…
When Karl Deisseroth started publishing his work on Channelrhodopsin-2, he set up a website to share the resources, including plasmid information, protocols for expression systems, and hardware details. His site, optogenetics.org, is…
In the last post, I mentioned how the “minification” factor (the diameter of the PMT detector divided by the diameter…
The Tsai book chapter from Ron Frostig’s CRC book is a great resource for building your own 2p microscope. In…
Funding is tight all over. The question is only: How tight? The White House released its budget today. It’s just a proposal, and…
Scientific research equipment is expensive. Partly because the markets are often small, so product development budgets and manufacturing set up costs have to be split over a comparatively small number of units. In addition, the customers are typically more concerned about reliability and service, rather than price.
However, there are other markets where these issues are…
Lasers for 2-photon microscopy are special in that they deliver all of their photons in a short period of time. Take a standard Ti:Sapph with an 80 MHz pulse rate and 100 fs pulses….
My Ph.D. program had a more traditional, comprehensive written qualifying exam following the coursework. However, many of my contemporaries in different programs had the new…
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