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#xraymyadvent 1/12/2014

I’m going to be X-Ray scanning a bunch of seasonal themed items for this year’s advent. Here’s the first of them. Answer under the break

Posted byDavid1/12/20142/12/2014Posted inengineering, experiments, geeking, science, The Arts, Xray, Xraymyadvent

Weather

I’ve been playing around with a homebrew weather station again, I dusted off the code I’d had running on a spare Raspberry Pi and added a few features to it. It’s now logging temperature, humidity and air pressure. I plan to add some more external sensors as soon as the parts arrive from eBay. The …

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Posted byDavid21/7/2014Posted inelectronics, engineering, experiments, geeking, science

X-Ray Monday

The X-Ray scanners  I use to produce the images for this series of posts are mainly used for producing 3-D data, they are Micro-Tomography scanners, so they don’t produce a large field of view, but thy do provide high resolution. This means images like the one below can be a little hard to decipher if …

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Posted byDavid28/4/201430/3/2014Posted inelectronics, engineering, experiments, Photographic, photos, physics, science, Tech

X-Ray Monday

What did you get for Easter? I got one of these:

Posted byDavid21/4/201430/3/2014Posted inengineering, experiments, Photographic, photos, physics, science

Science on the telly

I work on the Apocalypto Project – we read old & damaged scrolls and documents via a combination of x-rays and hardcore maths. We had a moment of fame earlier in the month – the project was mentioned on The One Show. Five minutes of video took a day to film – I wonder how …

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Posted byDavid6/3/20146/3/2014Posted inengineering, experiments, geeking, physics, science, TechTags: doing a science, telly

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