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 […]
It is the year that will be (2016 edition)
Ladies and Gentlemen, welcome to 2016! This year is bound to bring much goodness with it, so let’s see what we can do:
It was the year that was (2015 edition)
The year seems to have sped by at an amazing rate. Fortunately, the record shows that progress has been made this year. Indeed, we started […]
On troubles in nanoparticle-land and transmission factors
For this week, I have two short messages on two topics: the nanoparticle round-robin and the SAXSess transmission factor troubles.
Ultra-SAXS version 3: now with added synchrotron-i-ness
The last two weeks, I have been visiting Diamond and ESRF, to talk to Very Interesting People over there. The end result: a collaboration to […]