Exploring material science and machining

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Optical Microscopes:
- Amscope 40X-800X Trinocular Dual-illumination Metallurgical Microscope with Polarization
- Amscope 3.5X-180X Simul-Focal Stereo Zoom Microscope

Atomic Force Microscope:
- ICSPI nGauge AFM (100nm wedge tips and 20nm DLC tips)

Scanning Electron Microscope:
- Thermo Phenom XL G2 (BSD, SED and EDS)


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I've been making hinges. Very small hinges. Very normal thing to do!

Video soon talking about why Hinges Are Actually Kinda Hard to Design ™️ (for space anyway 😇)!

6 months ago | [YT] | 1,422

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This is a really cool build from Les' Lab! I made a janky version of this a year or two back and it grew... meh crystals. Did a bunch of reading about what it would take to make a proper crystallizer, saw it was going to be _a lot_ of work and moved on. So it's really cool that Les made one and documented the build so well. KDP crystals are awesome!

8 months ago | [YT] | 134

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Yay! Cheers to y'all watching my niche and nerdy videos 😅

9 months ago | [YT] | 805

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One leg's worth of robot parts 🦾

10 months ago | [YT] | 1,026

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Working on the next iteration of BirdBot 🐤

11 months ago | [YT] | 1,058

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New video up soon, just finalizing sponsor stuff.

If you can't wait, 45 minutes of ad-free photolithography building and testing is up on Nebula now: go.nebula.tv/breakingtaps

1 year ago | [YT] | 624