I'm sure that Dr. X would be very pleased if it went to Counter Culture Labs.  He just wants it to be understood and appreciated, rather than sitting neglected.  CCL should hurry up and buy the church building before the price goes up on it, and I can help transport it.

It is basically an equipment rack and a cart of accessories, so it doesn't take up a ton of room.  But it's good to be able to set the microscope and vacuum pump on different structures so that the vibration of the pump doesn't shake the scope.  Also, to take higher resolution pictures it will be necessary to construct an analog data importer but that will likely just be a computer with a slightly modified sound card and some software.

keep in mind that to view organic (nonmetallic) things you will need a gold sputterer.

-jake

On Tue, 11 Jun 2013, Ryan Bethencourt wrote:

Hi Jake,
I'd be very happy to help transport the scanning electron microscope and if
it can't fit into Sudo Room, I'd also love to float the idea of potentially
housing it at Counter Culture Labs (the Sudo room DIY Bio offshoot) when we
eventually open up. Any thoughts?

How big is the SEM (I know some of them can be huge which might prohibit
location)?

All the best,
Ryan

Best,
Ryan


On Sun, Jun 9, 2013 at 6:33 PM, Jake <jake@spaz.org> wrote:
      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
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