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Videos of progress
Sorry….again, I’ve been busy this week. I have now finished writing the papers I wanted to finish so I should be able to get busy on actually science now but unless there is a great demand for it I didn’t Read more…
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Animated sensing
Waiting on the next 3D mould to turn up this week so I’m been busy writing up some papers I’ve got behind on. Once of those papers (on measuring monolayer porosity) I have decided to send off to a conference Read more…
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A personal history of animation
Ever since watching “Tomorrow’s World” (by the BBC) when I was a kid, I have loved science-based animations. Of all the things I could have learnt from that show, the thing which impressed me the most was just how clear Read more…
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cBAM universally communicated
A while back XKCD (if you haven’t heard of XKCD and you are using the internet then I can only assume you have previously only been browsing underarock.com) ran a comic on using the 1000 most common words to explain Read more…
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Viva day
So, last week I had my viva, where I presented my thesis on “Fibre-optics sensors with molecule coatings”. It was, if you can believe it, quite good fun and I thought it might be helpful to share a blow-by-blow account Read more…
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Viva impending
Update: Viva finished and passed. I’ll write up a summary next week! So 6 months after handing in my thesis I am just a day away from my viva/PhD defence. Rather than spend today writing a blog post, I’m off Read more…
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Update
Been a bit busy this past week; Thursday was my last day as a Research Fellow at Cranfield University and in amongst all the finishing things off, I have also been furiously working on the xBAM project. So in light Read more…
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Visualising pythons
As part of my drive to get more of my work published as open source downloads (see software tab above) I have been busy tiding up some of my python scrips. Mostly this has just involved going back over them Read more…
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Playing with raspberries
One key feature of the xBAM project I’m working on is cost. Normal BAMs retail for about £100k and I want to make a BAM for just £8k. In the Lego BAM, I used the Mindstorms package as a control Read more…
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New blog, same obsession with science
As you have almost certainly just read in my last blog post on OpenOptics, I am leaving Cranfield University for as-of-yet unknown future places. I was aware some months back that my contract was coming to an end so I Read more…