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A Winter School, Italian style…

2024-02-12 Brian Pauw 0

Two weeks ago, I was at a winter school on “Metrology and Nanomaterials for Clean Energy”, to present on the 1200 traceable MOF syntheses as […]

Designing and building a pluripotent temperature (PID) controller

2024-01-30 Brian Pauw 1

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 […]

MOUSE operational statistics 2018 – 2023

2024-01-23 Brian Pauw 1

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 […]

Firework Bouquet

Happy new year! And plans for 2024..

2024-01-09 Brian Pauw 0

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.

2023-12-21 Brian Pauw 0

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.

2023-12-12 Brian Pauw 0

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

2023-11-29 Brian Pauw 3

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…

2023-11-21 Brian Pauw 0

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

2023-11-14 Brian Pauw 2

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!

2023-11-07 Brian Pauw 0

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 […]

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