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 […]
CanSAS 2023 – where are we going?
I have just returned from the 2023 CanSAS meeting in Grenoble, and I have… opinions, both positive and negative ones. Read on for my take […]
How to structure synthesis metadata intelligibly? An example from 1200 syntheses on RoWaN.
Those of you who have been around this blog a while, know that we have also been dabbling in laboratory automation (see, for example, this […]
Why most machine UIs are terrible for science and business, and one easy step to fix it! (it’s not what you think!)
My sincerest apologies to you for the most clickbait title ever. It had to be done because it integrates in a larger system of SEO […]