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Sunday, January 18, 2026

MAUS 'L' V0.05 On Holiday In Canberra

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  Time for a hotel room reassembly session. Updating the github wiki on V0.05 as I go. Fortunately I also took this photo of the RAMPS board...
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Thursday, January 15, 2026

Gold and Joysticks

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The gold has turned up. Small flakes rather than sheet, but we'll see what tests can be done. Also in the package was vark, or edible si...
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Saturday, January 10, 2026

Exploring Layer Failure Modes With Wrong Starting Height

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This image shows a 1000μm (1mm) long, 5-step staircase. The treads are 200μm square. Each step is 5μm (notionally) taller than the step to t...
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Thursday, January 08, 2026

Kinky Probe, Gripping Things, And New Foil Slides

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To keep the angle of the point with the slide more vertical, I've put a kink in Probe 9. This keeps the width of the deposited line even...
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Monday, January 05, 2026

New Optics For The Lab

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I've got a Svbony SV205 "8Mpixel" imager. It's a YUV USB3.0 device so it plugs in to Linux and just works. Unfortunately i...
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Saturday, January 03, 2026

Poor Results From Gold-ish Leaf (Dutch Guilding)

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Did a quick experiment with some Dutch Guilding leaf to see just how conductive it is. I put some nail gel on a slide, placed a sheet of pap...
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Thursday, January 01, 2026

The Great Pyramid Of Phail

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Happy New Year! The hand has healed up enough to make more slides, so I printed all the ideas I had kicking around while convalescing. I tri...