Today I wrote a guest article for the online magazine Inside 3DP because… well they asked nicely. First you should totally go read the article as it gives you a little insight into my research with 3D printing then come back here because below is a gallery of all the things Read more…
So today I was assembling yet another version of my microscope and as I sanded down some wood that I’d glued to it a thought occurred, it might be nice to spend some time talking about how some times scientific equipment is a bit more slapped together than some might Read more…
As you may know, I am using 3D printing for my cBAM project to create some impossibly complex shapes that can be easily reproduced with very high tolerance on angles etc. My little microscope has now gone through about 7 re-designs since I started, and with each one I’ve learnt Read more…
So a few years ago, my wife had her DNA examined by some nice people in London (we had asked them to); My wife had gone to have the test because her mother (who died some years ago of ovarian cancer) had taken the test and was found to have Read more…
Despite a plea to the internet community at large in a previous posted titled “Vortex rings – suggestions please” no one came forward with any explanation of my splitting vortex rings. As popular as our little blog is, it wasn’t popular enough to reach any fluidics experts that could help Read more…
As part of our subsurface oil spill project I have been working on the development of simulation rig to demonstrate the sensor in schools. At the moment the sensor is already stable is water and response well to localised oil in water so the kit is mostly about showing that Read more…
Brewster’s angle is the angle at which light of a certain polarisation won’t reflect off a surface. The resulting reflection will then be made up of only light from a single polarisation (p-polarised). This little optical quirk is how polarised lenses remove lots of scattered reflections in photographs and why Read more…