Spending money on Bonse Hart Bling-Bling
[ed1: Progress on the Everything SAXS book has been good: a framework is now in place with chapters, the revision ID on the title page […]
Hardware
Video: The bits of a SAXS machine
This week, I decided it’s time for another short video. Since I have never actually shown a SAXS machine, I thought it’d be of interest […]
Tweaking the Ultra-SAXS machine
It has been a very quiet four months (since this post) on the Bonse Hart front, as the generator was out of order (yes, again, […]
The Bonse Hart instrument works!
Ok, so let’s start with the disclaimer: very initial results (fresh off the instrument, hence the delay), and the primary beam intensity is still very, […]
Taking the Bonse Hart instrument apart again…
After a week trying to get a good reflection to come through the crystal — and failing —, it is time to take it apart, […]
Aligning the Bonse Hart crystal
For the last two weeks, I have had the X-ray generator up and running. After installation of an old cooling system there were some troubles […]
NIM-duino as ersatz counter-ratemeter (counts up to ~50000 counts per second)
The Bonse Hart USAXS instrument is coming along nicely, and the expectation is that we can start using X-rays pretty soon. One missing element in […]
Paper highlight, Madrid meeting and Detector electronics
A few things came up in the last two weeks which may be of interest. Firstly, I will be in Madrid for a magnesium alloys […]
Build Your Own Instrument update: Making it cool
Some of you have asked about the current state of the Bonse-Hart USAXS instrument I have been building (reported here). Well, it has seen some […]
Paper highlights: Prior art and detector trouble
Hello everyone, and welcome to the remaining 90% of 2013 (as of February 4), surely you’ve made good use of the first 10! I’ve been […]