Designing and building a pluripotent temperature (PID) controller
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 […]
Blog posts
MOUSE operational statistics 2018 – 2023
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 […]
Happy new year! And plans for 2024..
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.
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.
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Talk on lab automation and synthesis data structure online
A month ago, I gave a quite extensive talk introducing our flexible laboratory automation platform and how that fits in to the rest of our […]
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 […]
A convenient grazing incidence (GI) sample holder
We’re just getting started with grazing incidence measurements on our MOUSE instrument. These measurements require mounting a sample (typically a wafer or glass slide), so […]