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back focal plane (oregon)
Joined March 2022
TGIF (thank god it’s field emission)
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even JEOL makes cutouts around column bolts so shallow as to require Extra Short Screwdriver
more specialty tools that ship with electron microscopes: Extra Short Screwdriver and Extra Long Screwdriver
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X-ray safety screwdrivers keep finding their way to me
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here’s my water cooled lens bay
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7-segment display with built in hex decoder
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Akita 🤍
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Replying to @ablata_at_alba
that’s wild, i had a vaguely similar de-spaghettification incident but not nearly as strong of a comeback
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i received an untapped NPT fitting from mcmaster, some would call this a quality control issue but i appreciate pulling a rare variant
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this is a great history of TEM in bio and covers a lot of early debates around cellular structures, i wish something similar existed for materials
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Replying to @George200kV
oh i fkn love this stuff
closed loop & vectorized scan control enables some really interesting stuff!
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