Things are getting along quite well in the new lab. Large pieces of aluminium have been turned into small pieces of aluminium (and a lot of swarf), spectrometers have been upgraded and calibrated, and I’ve just finished building some constant current regulators for low currents. The current regulators don’t work how I thought they should, …
Continue reading “Happiness is a warm gun hot soldering iron.”
If a title like that doesn’t bring the hits in, nothing will. The Thesis, my Magnum opus, is now finished, bound up and submitted. And I’ve just spotted a couple of typos in it. Bugger. Nothing severe like my last thesis, where I got the year wrong on the very first page. I didn’t spot …
Scientists must update their DNS when changing servers else their websites vanish from the ‘net for for a week.
I think I should have become an engineer. I like problem solving, I like building things and dammit, I need an excuse for the CNC mill I want. What prompted this? Well it is the annual laser repair time. For a piece of equipment that cost somewhere between £30k – £50k, you have to wonder …
Boredom at work is a bad thing, it leads to spending a day making things like this work: (taken in late October – no glue or trickery involved. It collapsed seconds after I took the photo)
