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Live Animal Imaging Confocal Activates Vascular Clotting
On a recent project I had an opportunity to collaborate with some great manufacturers and vendors, to build a custom microscope for Dr. Chia-Yi (Alex) Kuan, at the University of Virginia School of Medicine. This instrument is quite unique, and required a team of manufacturers to pull it off. Dr. Kuan required an upright confocal microscope,…
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Vortex mixer mod using Ryobi Orbital Sander
During a recent project for a client, I had to prepare a fluorescent bead slide for imaging. Beads require dilution, and a vortex mixer is recommended in order to provide ample separation of the individual beads. Not having one on hand, I figured there must be a way to achieve similar results, and found this…
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Polarization sensitive cameras for Microscopy
Flir is pushing these new Sony sensors, along with Lucid, for use in remote sensing and inspection. These are interesting. Basically each camera can capture 4 polarization states in one image. I can imagine these may be used for several microscopy applications, chiefly in polarization light microscopes, but also in DIC, and stereo applications where…
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sUAS Drone Pilot Test Resources
The resources below are for students attending my drone courses at Norcal Flight Center, but if other readers stop by, I hope you find these useful! The FAA classifies certification for commercial use of drones as an “sUAS” cert. Or, a small Unmanned Aerial System, Remote Pilot certification. This certification allows us to operate a…
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Looking for Alzheimer’s in the Eye
I’m excited to share the following publication from my colleagues at Neurovision Imaging & Cedars Sinai Medical Center. This paper represents a ton of work, from people all over the world. I’m also happy to say I had a chance to play a very small role in supporting the efforts! This research continues to advance…
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Sine wave Generator from iPhone
I keep looking into a low cost, yet stable way to generate nice sine waves which are controllable, using something other than a signal generator or one of the cheap breakouts which never seem to work that well. This led me to considering audio systems as a possible source of signal. It turns out that…
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New Site Design
So i finally spent some money on a decent site theme. I hope you like it! If anyone experiences any issues in using the site with this theme, please let me know! -Austin
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Calling all Arduino and Raspberry Pi Users!
Do you build systems which use Arduino or Raspberry Pi boards? Are you happy with the enclosure options available today? I’m not either. But I’m having some trouble figuring out the best possible products to offer. So, I figure there’s no one better to help than the people who need such products. Would you help…
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LED, laser, or other PWM control using Triggerscope
It appears that more and more people want to use PWM control for illumination devices from Micro-Manager and other imaging software. PWM may be used for any number of applications, from high speed pulsing of an LED, or a laser, in order to reduce phototoxicity or just to control brightness, or to drive a DC…
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Intel NUC, Pt Grey camera and ASI RAMM offer serious performance for a great price
One of my recent projects which was very exciting and interesting was to build a custom imaging system for John Mclaughlin at Torch Therapeutics. This was a great build for a number of reasons, one of which is that Torch has allowed me to write a report on this build, which is greatly appreciated! From…