Seattle sure is lovely in the summer

How’s your day going? Here’s mine… These both exit from a single mode fiber and both pass through a pair of pinholes. Following the Powell lens the 488 looks really good… the 405… not so much. Why didn’t I look at that one earlier?!?!?

Man, must be nice to get a response. I’ve asked for models from multiple labs and have heard only crickets. And by model I mean a STEP file?! Cool bro, we will just make it ourself.

Them: Hey Brandon, is your scope working? Me: check out this otter I printed, you could also paint the shark..,

Oh thank the sweet bebé, we back.

Obligatory food color pic. This has to be the #helloworld of microfluidics. Big news for the lab though as we moving towards automating some tedious prep

Always at the forefront of education! This will be a wonderful resource

Time to clean up some super tiny bits and bobs

Now we can make all the things big and smol. 16micron pixels for less than $600?! Come on meow

Our first resin printed mold! Reto Fiolka the cleanup was super easy, I didn’t get my hands dirty at all. Will have to talk to the team in the lab and see if they agree

The first draft is the roughest, or whatever P.P. Arnold said. It’s so much fun to be sent a video of the successful first test of the solenoids by your students. Pneumatic microfluidics controller here we come

Goodbye minecraft! Look at how smooth those edges are meow 😻

Microfluidics pressure vial mk1. Uses a standard 1.5ml centrifuge tube with a 3dp insert in a 50ml centrifuge tube. The input is 1/4” NPT for air and the output is 1/16” PTFE to head off to the chip. Finalizing our 8-channel manifold and control board #underPressure

Join us for our first Fall BioImaging North America #LLSUG this Tuesday Sept 10 at 10 Mountain. We are excited to welcome Dr. Xiongtao Ruan from the Advanced Bioimaging Center @ UC Berkeley to hear about his awesome work developing #PetaKit5D. Use the following to get there: sdsmt.zoom.us/j/92796705934

Only the worst memes allowed

It’s pretty obvious the bengals serve deuterated gatorade

Here’s something you don’t have that you didn’t realize until now that you wish you had.

Ugh. PDMS curing inhibition is a real PITA. One of these has to work, right?!