[sudo-discuss] scanning electron microscope
Ryan Bethencourt
ryan.bethencourt at gmail.com
Tue Jun 11 15:25:56 PDT 2013
Great thanks Jake, we're working on the space thing for CCL and hoping to
have one in the nearish term... it's kind of like the early days of Sudo
Room when we talked on and on about getting a space... until we finally got
one :)
On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 3:16 PM, Jake <jake at spaz.org> wrote:
> it is currently in a relatively safe place, especially considering that
> moving it is the most dangerous thing to it. So it should stay where it is
> until a new place is chosen for it.
>
> Since Sudoroom doesn't have enough room for it and CCL has NO room yet,
> moving it will have to wait.
>
> However, i know of a pickup truck that can be used to move it if and when
> the time comes.
>
>
> -jake
>
> On Tue, 11 Jun 2013, Ryan Bethencourt wrote:
>
> Thanks Jake, It looks like we may have to rent a uhaul truck to move it
>> as it looks large?
>> Sounds like Ben has a place for us to store it and we have another
>> Counter Culture labs co-founder/member (Shanee) who knows how to use it and
>> said she could teach us :)
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 3:10 PM, Benjamin Lack <benlack at gmail.com> wrote:
>> It looks like it would be fine sitting in a garage for a few
>> months, if so, I have space.
>> Ben
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 2:46 PM, Patrik D'haeseleer <patrikd at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> That would be excellent!
>>
>> Here's the user manual with all the specs:
>>
>> https://www.noisebridge.net/**images/c/c7/ISI_Mini-TV_SEM_**
>> Manual-Troubleshooting-**Reference_Guide.pdf<https://www.noisebridge.net/images/c/c7/ISI_Mini-TV_SEM_Manual-Troubleshooting-Reference_Guide.pdf>
>>
>> It's a desktop machine, so doesn't necessarily take up any more space
>> than some bio equipment. Wonder how easy it would be to DIY a gold
>> sputterer...
>>
>> Patrik
>>
>> On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 1:15 PM, Jake <jake at spaz.org> wrote:
>> I'm sure that Dr. X would be very pleased if it went to Counter
>> Culture Labs. He just wants it to be understood and appreciated, rather
>> than sitting
>> neglected. CCL should hurry up and buy the church building before
>> the price goes up on it, and I can help transport it.
>>
>> It is basically an equipment rack and a cart of accessories, so it
>> doesn't take up a ton of room. But it's good to be able to set the
>> microscope and
>> vacuum pump on different structures so that the vibration of the
>> pump doesn't shake the scope. Also, to take higher resolution pictures it
>> will be
>> necessary to construct an analog data importer but that will likely
>> just be a computer with a slightly modified sound card and some software.
>>
>> keep in mind that to view organic (nonmetallic) things you will
>> need a gold sputterer.
>>
>> -jake
>>
>> On Tue, 11 Jun 2013, Ryan Bethencourt wrote:
>>
>> Hi Jake,
>> I'd be very happy to help transport the scanning electron
>> microscope and if
>> it can't fit into Sudo Room, I'd also love to float the idea
>> of potentially
>> housing it at Counter Culture Labs (the Sudo room DIY Bio
>> offshoot) when we
>> eventually open up. Any thoughts?
>>
>> How big is the SEM (I know some of them can be huge which
>> might prohibit
>> location)?
>>
>> All the best,
>> Ryan
>>
>> Best,
>> Ryan
>>
>>
>> On Sun, Jun 9, 2013 at 6:33 PM, Jake <jake at spaz.org> wrote:
>> sudoroom is being offered a scanning electron
>> microscope (by Dr.
>> X).
>>
>> it comes with all the stuff and actually works, but it
>> requires
>> a bit of knowledge to operate it. unfortunately Mr. X
>> is not
>> available to train us how to operate it, however Chris
>> Murphy
>> may be available and knows how it works.
>>
>> It would take up about 30 square feet of space
>> including the
>> place where the operators sit or stand. It is not
>> computerized
>> like the one at Pumping Station One, it is an analog
>> machine.
>> Pictures can be taken at high resolution by
>> long-exposure photo
>> of the CRT on the front of the machine, or we can build
>> an
>> analog data importer to reconstruct images at much
>> higher
>> resolution if we desire.
>>
>> The cash price of this SEM is $10 in gas and tolls, I
>> will
>> provide the vehicle and movement. The rest of the
>> price of the
>> machine in blood and sacrifice is in the time and
>> energy to
>> learn its intricicies and idiosynchracies while
>> learning about
>> vacuum pumps and vacuum oil, and how not to let vacuum
>> oil
>> contaminate your vacuum and get all over your filament.
>>
>> https://noisebridge.net/wiki/**SEM<https://noisebridge.net/wiki/SEM>
>>
>> ironically, one of the reasons it doesn't work as well
>> at
>> noisebridge is because the whole place shakes when the
>> city
>> buses ride by. and sudoroom is apparently directly
>> over the
>> bart tunnel so i wonder how different it will be.
>>
>> -jake
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