Taking time off
Hey everyone, it s been a bit quiet on the blog for the last couple of weeks, and it will stay quiet for a bit longer. [...]
Looking At Nothing
A SA(X)S Weblog
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Hot off the press: grilling composites in the beam
On Monday, I found myself and two students on I22 at the Diamond Light Source, also known as my favourite small-angle scattering synchrotron beamline. There, [...]
Teaching and Trouble building binaries
You might ve noticed a bit of a lag in the updates on this site. For the last weeks, I have been running around teaching (and [...]
Suite dreams: the code we own.
Every now and then I wonder why I m spending a significant amount of time coding. A penny dropped when I was listing my code projects: [...]
“Department Queue”: benefits of a Bluesky queue server
We ve now started using Bluesky in production on the MOUSE instrument, after discovering how the queueserver ties things together, and it already has some advantages [...]
Designing an in-situ 1200˚C mini-tube-furnace, and the value of open hardware licenses
This ll be a relatively short blog post on something we re developing for an upcoming beamtime, and how (the lack of) open hardware licensed designs drove [...]
Bluesky on the MOUSE: a first look
[note: Check out the glossary below for a definition of relevant terms] Last week, we finally managed to do scans with Bluesky on the MOUSE. [...]
McSAS3+GUI article preprint available
McSAS3 and McSAS3GUI* are a fitting engine and user interface for analysing scattering patterns easily with Monte Carlo methods. This combination is the successor to [...]
#OpenToWork – Adding the MOUSE lab to your funding proposals?
The MOUSE lab has been doing well in the past eight years: we ve had a good stream of publications from the investigations we ve been involved [...]
“Move carefully and fix things” for all our machines: MoDaCor
I ve written a bit about MoDaCor in the past (in these and these posts, for example); building a framework to process our instruments data in [...]