In another life I was a particle physicist, or rather I become an engineer involved in the ATLAS detector at the LHC Cern. Things change, projects carry on and I quit to blow things up with big lasers. One of the primary stated aims of the LHC is to find the Higgs particle before any …
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Eclipse photos
So, I took eclipse photos on Saturday night, I filled a 1gig SD card – though at 6 meg per photo in RAW format , that’s quite easy to do. I was hoping to get enough decent images to animate them, showing the progression of the eclipse. Far too many were out of focus to …
Happiness is a warm gun hot soldering iron.
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, …
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Boredom at work
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)