[sudo-discuss] scanning electron microscope

sudoroom is being offered a scanning electron microscope (by Dr. X). it comes with all the stuff and actually works, but it requires a bit of knowledge to operate it. unfortunately Mr. X is not available to train us how to operate it, however Chris Murphy may be available and knows how it works. It would take up about 30 square feet of space including the place where the operators sit or stand. It is not computerized like the one at Pumping Station One, it is an analog machine. Pictures can be taken at high resolution by long-exposure photo of the CRT on the front of the machine, or we can build an analog data importer to reconstruct images at much higher resolution if we desire. The cash price of this SEM is $10 in gas and tolls, I will provide the vehicle and movement. The rest of the price of the machine in blood and sacrifice is in the time and energy to learn its intricicies and idiosynchracies while learning about vacuum pumps and vacuum oil, and how not to let vacuum oil contaminate your vacuum and get all over your filament. https://noisebridge.net/wiki/SEM ironically, one of the reasons it doesn't work as well at noisebridge is because the whole place shakes when the city buses ride by. and sudoroom is apparently directly over the bart tunnel so i wonder how different it will be. -jake