It’s a snow day here, and I’ve been busy on a project. So this week is a quick, simple post about sugar and metal. If you ever study metal contents in sugary solutions (in this case, a juice mimic), you should not evaporate your contents. In our lab, we never processed our waste. However, we …
In last week’s post, I discussed a method for DIY PCB etching. This week, I will be continuing in that manner by showing you the final preparation steps I used to get this board ready for soldering including cutting, drilling holes, and protecting the copper with liquid tin. Cutting and Drilling Once the boards were …
It is a new year, and my dissertation has finally made it past embargoes to publication. Allow me to present: Development and Applications of Chemical Sensors for the Detection of Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide and Methane. You can view the ProQuest entry here. There is a download link to the full text at the bottom of …
Two weeks ago, I discussed the inspirations for a Greek Philospher mask. Last week, I showed how this mask was built up. This week, my Greek Philosopher mask will be completed with the addition of paint and lacquer. An Aside About Rocks The ‘stone’ surface of the Greek Philosopher mask was painted to look similar …
This is a proposal I wrote and submitted to the July 2017 cycle of the NASA NPP program to work on development of SiC logic for a Venusian satellite project.. It was rejected and I went another direction. The SiC logic proposal idea was generally well received. While many of the reviewers comments could have …
Isn’t it a hassle when you go try to keep your class notes organized and bound, but your professor loves handouts? Just take to bookbinding class notes into a copy worth keeping, like I have. This and the post next week will show the steps I took to bind the notes from one of my …
Continuing from last week’s post, this week we will be adding labels to our MOSFET in TikZ and adding slide animations with Beamer. As a reminder, last week we drew our image of a MOSFET in Tikz before adding colors. The colors we added were based on the materials used in each part of the …
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I’m a big fan of using LaTeX for my scientific writing. (What is LaTeX? It is a typesetting programming language that gives you much more flexibility than other writing environments. wikipedia) Since I have some time on my hands, I wanted to prepare for future presentations by writing up some notes and slides using in …
I remember back in undergrad when I had a small safety incident in one of my labs. We were doing an extraction of . . . something or other. Part of the experiment involved an extraction using a cooled Rotovap extraction. This particular extraction needed a very cold trap. We were using dry ice in …
Did you know that if things go just wrong enough, you can create blue canola oil? I didn’t either until the other day when I decided to make some fries to go with some burgers I made. Hungry Yet? It was going to be a delicious meal. Some big Idaho potatoes were into thick fries (the best …