Blog posts – Page 16 – Looking At Nothing

The "Zing" laser engraver, with the filtration unit underneath.

Basement toys: Laser engraver

2016-10-11 Brian Pauw 0

Looking through the basements of the institute I work at is a favourite pastime of mine. This way, I have found many interesting things to […]

Connection diagram of the various USAXS control components.

USAXS electronics

2016-10-04 Brian Pauw 0

While I was under the assumption that we’d test the Bonse Hart USAXS instrument at the synchrotron first, scheduling issues there have dictated that we […]

The evolution of the reduced Chi-squared as a function of the shift along q.

Self-correlation: a unique measure of SAXS information content?

2016-09-27 Brian Pauw 3

A funny point came up last week when we were trying to assess the Q-uncertainty inherent in our measurement. We were trying a method inspired […]

In brief: the highs and lows of spending money

2016-09-20 Brian Pauw 4

You might remember that a while ago I asked for advice on whether to build or buy a base SAXS system for expansion. Almost all […]

The two crystal boxes seen (approximately) from the beam side. The two crystal boxes seen (approximately) from the beam side.

USAXS progress report

2016-09-13 Brian Pauw 3

Today, we are 70% done with 2016. Time flies, and some weeks it’s hard to notice any progress. The USAXS project, however, has been plodding […]

Drawing after discussion. Note the added cross-sectional view.

Part design workflow

2016-09-06 Brian Pauw 1

This week, I want to talk a bit about the workflow I have in place for designing instrumentation parts. With the USAXS instrument nearly completely […]

"talk to the experts", cc-by-licenced image by Mai Le. Source: https://www.flickr.com/photos/maile/1745480

Talks by colleagues in Berlin and ESRF

2016-08-30 Brian Pauw 0

Today I’d like to announce two talks which are to take place next week: one by Dr. Heinrich Stuhrmann, which will be held here at […]

Management: Pointing thoughtfully at glass panes since 1812. Image CC-BY-ND licenced by Vodafone Deutschland, source: https://flic.kr/p/Fn3BEa

Shanghaied into organisatorial waters

2016-08-23 Brian Pauw 0

Those who have read this weblog for a while may have noticed a rather distinct change in tone the last few months. The reason for […]

IOU

2016-08-16 Brian Pauw 0

Dear readers, My apologies, I haven’t got any post ready! I’ll have to skip this week and give you an IOU. Next week there will […]

Holiday!

2016-08-10 Brian Pauw 1

I’m on holiday for a week, so here’s a picture of what I’m doing on my off days!