Analytics Lounge

Science! I worked with @PeterZieba of @analyticslounge to do X-ray fluorescence (XRF) analysis of a 200 BCE Celtic Iron Age spearhead. I’m glad to see this was *not* identified as a modern alloy. I’m not sure why this iron has so much silicon, though.

@tferriss Tim, please reach out to us. We'd love to talk to you about creating something like this: analyticslounge.org/contact

@tferriss There are projects like Audiomoth that are deployed to monitor sound. New MEMs sensors would make detecting fire cheap/easy. Power budget for something like this could make it portable, solarpowered, and practical to implement large arrays. Our NFP would love a project like this!

This is important. Any suggestions or leads, anyone?

Who wants to decap something of interest? I personally am curious about the layout of old FPGA predecessors. Specifically, I'd love to look at the Lattice ispLSI 1000-series.

Nothing like a weekend sputter-coat for some of our long-departed lab bugs:

Chernobyl: 32 Years On: youtu.be/fuDS-VBnJjI?a via @YouTube

I liked a @YouTube video youtu.be/HUtW7a3XWBM?a RGA Residual Gas Analyzer (Mass Spectrometer) Experiments and Helium Leak Checking

We came. We saw. We x-rayed a meteorite. @analyticslounge visits @AdlerPlanet and demonstrates x-ray fluorescence.

Come join us at the Adler Planetarium tomorrow! (Thursday from 1-4pm) We'll be performing XRF analysis on various objects live! Feel free to bring things you would like analyzed! Xrays, science, and space all in one place!

#RSNA2017 Pictured: X-Ray tube (magnetic coupling), Naked CT + SPECT machine combo, and a Mobile MRI (if we can put this on wheels, there's nothing that can't be made mobile).

Dean and Yvette (Hiding), decommissioning the scanning electron microscope at Knox college!

Yvette bundling up cables from the column before a geeky reenactment of "Free Willy" in trying to see if the unit will actually make it through the doorframe without further disassembly ...

Non-traditional Thanksgiving idea: calibrating a Mettler H51 analytical balance readable to 10 micrograms.

Plasma, with no chambers, no glass, open atmosphere. Just a crystal and some high pressure water. What's not to like?: caltech.edu/news/engineers… youtube.com/watch?v=Ht0_Kk…

First jobs run on the VMC4020: youtu.be/xHH0FMCGtFk?a via @YouTube

Small Fry appears to be permanently closed! Our Science Happy Hour event tonight is relocated to Irazu at 1865 N. Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL. Hope to see you there!