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 […]
Hardware
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 […]
Bonse-Hart USAXS on a shoestring budget
As some of you might know, I have long been a fan of the Bonse-Hart type ultra-small-angle scattering machines [1]. These instruments allow us to […]
Ruler vs. Silver behenate: Trust but verify
One of the most important parameters you need when analyzing small-angle scattering patterns is the distance from the sample to the detector, as this defines […]
“In the workshop”
“Hello, I am in the workshop at the moment, learning to cut, file, drill, lathe, mill, wire-EDM, and CNC, so I can construct enough components […]