Motor controller madness – a tale as old as time
A few weeks ago, at about the same time we were swapping around motor stages for grazing incidence experiments, my trusty self-built motor controller version […]
Looking into something
Avoid these issues when designing synchrotron experiments…
This year, I’ve become part of a peer review panel. These are panels that wade through a long list of proposals for beamlines, and rank […]
Data Analysis Round Robin, now published!
Almost two years since the first public call for participation, the results of the data analysis round robin for small-angle scattering have now been published […]
How to structure synthesis metadata intelligibly? An example from 1200 syntheses on RoWaN.
Those of you who have been around this blog a while, know that we have also been dabbling in laboratory automation (see, for example, this […]
Why most machine UIs are terrible for science and business, and one easy step to fix it! (it’s not what you think!)
My sincerest apologies to you for the most clickbait title ever. It had to be done because it integrates in a larger system of SEO […]
Unnecessary Grazing Incidence Traditions? (Not) putting the surface at the center of rotation
I don’t have a whole lot of experience with Grazing Incidence (GI) geometry, indeed, I don’t have much at all. Now that we’re starting to […]
SAXS on a boat?
It has been a dream of mine to somehow combine my work with the ocean. While private plans are slowly taking shape to get a […]
Does it matter part 5.1: Detector linearity
Time for another short investigation into data corrections? Good. Let’s take a quick look at the linearity of our Bruker HiStar detector.
Calculating scattering by hand – example 1
Those who read the older SAXS literature will note liberal use of Fourier transforms to calculate the scattering behaviour of odd-shaped particles. Likewise, the effects […]
The Dark Side of Science.
A little step sideways from small-angle scattering for this week’s post. As you are probably aware by now, I sometimes use the LaN weblog to […]