2 items: A missed correction? and Bug in SAXSQuant
Two tiny things this week. Firstly, the round-robin results are trickling in, and when reviewing Steven Weigand’s data, I noticed a correction I have not […]
Bonse Hart v3: progress report.
As noted at the end of last year, interested parties at ESRF and Diamond agreed to fund the next iteration of the Bonse Hart-style USAXS […]
A fix for your “SAXSess” instrument. Part 1: the Mechanics.
Together with Dr. Petzold from the HZB, we have devised a solution for measuring the transmission factor in the Anton Paar SAXSess system (the problem […]
A few tips for scientific writing
Many of us also have not been able to enjoy a course on academic writing, yet are being asked in our line of work to […]
Step-by-step: measuring liquids in absolute units
[apologies for my absence last week: I was felled by work and illness. The following is based on a request from a reader:] Providing measurements […]
Video: The components of a slit-collimated SAXS instrument
The (probably) last instrument type in the series is the slit-collimated system (in the past, I did one on a SAXS system, and the homebuilt […]
Round Robin Reprise
Dear Readers, The last time we tried to complete a round-robin experiment, we hit a snag about halfway through: the silver nano-particle solutions we tried […]
A database! Helping you make sense of the soup in five years.
Two weeks ago, @tostri asked: tostri @drheaddamage I wonder have you gotten any further with your analysis of JuilaBase? 18/01/16 17:35 which is a valid […]
Does it matter, part 7: Generator warm-up
Many of my mentors have insisted that the X-ray generator needs some time to stabilize after setting the generator voltage and current. The given waiting […]
Setting up a Python development environment on Mac OS X
Right before the Christmas holiday, my new Mac arrived at work. This computer will be used mainly as a test and development environment for the […]