Imaging, Microscopy and More
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Best Bicycle Safety lights ever!
Here’s another inventor who used micro financing to get his idea to the next level. I think this is a wonderful idea for so many reasons. It’s elegant, uses disruptive LED technology for numerous advantages and integrates onto an existing platform (the bicycle) in an unobtrusive way. Most of importantly this would REALLY increase the…
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Throwable 360 degree panoramic camera
This is an excellent idea! To add to it I’d increase the padding, and supply it with a small surgical tube launcher. A pic from say 25-50 feet up would be really cool for a lot of different scenes. httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Th5zlUe6gOE
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DIY Open Source Fusion? I really hope this guy can pull it off. What a worldwide change it would be!!!
If we don’t support a guy like this – who will? Chevron? Valero? The next time he opens up a funding round, I’m going to jump in. I’ll keep this on my radar… -Austin
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Identifying vibration from on-scope sources
Blurry images can be caused by more than optical problems. I recently had a customer with a rather complex system tell me she was having focus/blur issues on her scope. When I inspected the system I found everything to be fine on the optical side, however, when viewing my sample and a short (10ms) exposure,…
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Coupling a C-2 confocal to an AZ-100 zoom scope
I recently worked on a demo where the customer wanted a confocal with magnification range from macro (1x) to low power compound levels (200-400x). In order to meet this requirement we showed him the AZ-100 zoom scope, and the C-2 scanning confocal, which runs on elements. I was simply blown away by the performance range…
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Basejumping with a wing suit
This is just amazing! httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kApK2MlwYBU
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HDTV Antenna from CoatHangars, Tinfoil and a 2×4
Well, this is another non-microscopy post, but it does have something to do with “imaging” in a general sense … About 3 months ago i turned off my satellite TV programming, for two reasons: One, I watched too much TV. Two, it’s a ripoff. While I’ve managed to find a few shows I like online,…
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Update – High Speed Scanning with an ASI Stage
A few weeks back I posted that I would be testing high speed stage movement with an ASI stage. Of course things are never easy to actually get working, but I managed to, and here are the results: Triggered camera ( I used an Andor Clara for this test – fast and sensitive), large stage…
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Aurora Australis from ISS
This is an awesome timelapse! I’ve dreamed of one day seeing things like this from space. Maybe developments like the private SpaceShip Two and SpaceX this dream could one day be realized. Alas, I’m quite confident the ticket for a ride would exceed my home mortgage by some exponential value. So, I’ll gratefully continue to…
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Why every live cell imaging system should include a rack server
Well, yes I AM biased, but here’s the scoop… Look around your microscope… What do you see? Small control boxes, Ac/Dc power converters, expensive components sitting on the floor. Is this really how an instrument should be built? I say no! Racks for A/V and computing are relatively inexpensive. They provide a clean, standardized enclosure…