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 …
LaTeX: Drawing MOSFET in TikZ – Labels and Animation Read More »
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 …
A while back, there was some discussion about fountain pen ink pH. During that discussion, I offered to test inks and my friend from the Geekhack forum, CPTBadass, offered to donate some samples for my tests. I received samples from my good CPT in the mail, and I went about running tests. This post is …
Fountain Pen Ink pH – A Comparison of Five Commercial Inks Read More »
Before my dissertation project got underway, I was working on a project describing the kinetics of adsorption of uranyl ions onto a metal oxide thin film. The thin film was impregnated onto pellets of silica and alumina, then I would submerge the pellets in a solution of uranium nitrate in water. After being submerged for …
Let’s get this thing started. This is a new blog which will be used to act as a frontpage for my projects. Since I have a few years of interesting stuff worth posting, I’m going to post old things every week. Each of these posts will be categorized as “backlog” and will be dated if …