Analytics Lounge

A makerspace in Chicago focusing on science, recycling science equipment, and CNC prototyping,

[Ryan Pierce 🇺🇦 🌻 @RyanPierce_Chi]

Science! I worked with @PeterZieba of @analyticslounge to do X-ray fluorescence (XRF) analysis of a 200 BCE Celtic Iron Age spearhead. I’m glad to see this was *not* identified as a modern alloy. I’m not sure why this iron has so much silicon, though.

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@tferriss Tim, please reach out to us. We'd love to talk to you about creating something like this:
https://t.co/XnKF9UALkb

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@tferriss There are projects like Audiomoth that are deployed to monitor sound. New MEMs sensors would make detecting fire cheap/easy. Power budget for something like this could make it portable, solarpowered, and practical to implement large arrays. Our NFP would love a project like this!

[Analytics Lounge @analyticslounge]

Who wants to decap something of interest? I personally am curious about the layout of old FPGA predecessors. Specifically, I'd love to look at the Lattice ispLSI 1000-series.

[Peter Zieba @PeterZieba]

First attempt at decapsulation of a chip is a success! We used an National Semiconductor LF13509N 4-Channel Differential Analog Multiplexer. Key takeaways: 70% Nitric Acid works, but only when heated. Room temp will not work...

[Analytics Lounge @analyticslounge]

Nothing like a weekend sputter-coat for some of our long-departed lab bugs:

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https://t.co/6C24iuMQ3d

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Chernobyl: 32 Years On: https://t.co/oOvLKH8UN2 via @YouTube

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I liked a @YouTube video https://t.co/hhdKK29hsa RGA Residual Gas Analyzer (Mass Spectrometer) Experiments and Helium Leak Checking

[Ryan Pierce 🇺🇦 🌻 @RyanPierce_Chi]

We came. We saw. We x-rayed a meteorite. @analyticslounge visits @AdlerPlanet and demonstrates x-ray fluorescence.

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Come join us at the Adler Planetarium tomorrow! (Thursday from 1-4pm)

We'll be performing XRF analysis on various objects live! Feel free to bring things you would like analyzed! Xrays, science, and space all in one place!

[Analytics Lounge @analyticslounge]

https://t.co/O4sCMYMO5c

[Peter Zieba @PeterZieba]

#RSNA2017 Pictured: X-Ray tube (magnetic coupling), Naked CT + SPECT machine combo, and a Mobile MRI (if we can put this on wheels, there's nothing that can't be made mobile).

[Peter Zieba @PeterZieba]

Dean and Yvette (Hiding), decommissioning the scanning electron microscope at Knox college!

[Peter Zieba @PeterZieba]

Yvette bundling up cables from the column before a geeky reenactment of "Free Willy" in trying to see if the unit will actually make it through the doorframe without further disassembly ...

[Ryan Pierce 🇺🇦 🌻 @RyanPierce_Chi]

Non-traditional Thanksgiving idea: calibrating a Mettler H51 analytical balance readable to 10 micrograms.

[Analytics Lounge @analyticslounge]

Plasma, with no chambers, no glass, open atmosphere. Just a crystal and some high pressure water. What's not to like?:
https://t.co/vWyelHwIxu
https://t.co/UfEAQZqIOW

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https://t.co/UThldXpYTu

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First jobs run on the VMC4020: https://t.co/btPjtka0Xp via @YouTube

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Small Fry appears to be permanently closed! Our Science Happy Hour event tonight is relocated to Irazu at 1865 N. Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL. Hope to see you there!