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Articles by Brian Pauw

Turn your measurement files into NeXus (or NeXish) with this somewhat universal translator…

2024-04-04 Brian Pauw 0

One persistent problem in the X-ray scattering community is the lack of data interoperability. This is exactly what kicked off the CanSAS collaboration 40 years […]

A month of MOUSE with Moeez

2024-03-21 Brian Pauw 0

During the last four weeks, we’ve had a guest visiting the lab from the University of Washington. Abdul Moeez, a Ph.D. student in Prof. Lilo […]

Work in Progress: the structure of squid “bones”

2024-03-05 Brian Pauw 0

Besides the ongoing instrument migration efforts, we are also continuing work on “real” science. One of these involves the backbone of squid (called a squid […]

Steps for “liberating” the MOUSE from its original control system.

2024-02-23 Brian Pauw 1

Regular readers will know we are in the process of migrating away from the last vestiges of the original SPEC-based control system on our (already […]

A Winter School, Italian style…

2024-02-12 Brian Pauw 0

Two weeks ago, I was at a winter school on “Metrology and Nanomaterials for Clean Energy”, to present on the 1200 traceable MOF syntheses as […]

Designing and building a pluripotent temperature (PID) controller

2024-01-30 Brian Pauw 1

When it became time to build a new temperature controller, I wanted to build an ultimate design that could be used for (almost) everything. This […]

MOUSE operational statistics 2018 – 2023

2024-01-23 Brian Pauw 1

Are you curious how much you can gain by automating of your methods and instrumentation? The operational stats for the MOUSE including 2023 are now […]

Firework Bouquet

Happy new year! And plans for 2024..

2024-01-09 Brian Pauw 0

We’re already 2% into 2024, but there might still be time to wish you a happy new year, and hint towards the plan for 2024. […]

The MOUSE is back in (“friendly user”-)operation, but plenty of work lies ahead.

2023-12-21 Brian Pauw 0

After about 1.5 months of struggles with the collapse of the veritable domino-stack of hardware that comprises the MOUSE, the system is now functional to […]

Adding a motor controller to the MOUSE step 2 – towards replacing SPEC.

2023-12-12 Brian Pauw 0

Last time, I showed the rapid development of the replacement motor controller hardware, and pointed at the development of the driver software (an EPICS IOC […]

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