Imaging, Microscopy and More

A friend sent this and…well…this is just an awesome use of military hardware 🙂  

  About a year ago I backed a Kickstarter project for a 3-D printer. A few months after some typical Kickstarter delays (production trouble – etc), I received my shiny new printer in a big box. After setting it up I realized one thing: I had no education in this method of fabrication – and…

Having backed a few projects this year, I really enjoyed this short presentation. Kickstarter is Awesome!    

  This is an interesting way to use image processing. It’s a program which encodes text into an image or into a sound file. Looks like something for the spy world but it’s something I never considered for image processing. Cool stuff!  

So over the past year I’ve been working on a product which I can finally talk about. It’s a retinal imager which uses the iPhone 5/5S as a capture/storage system. For now the only specs I can give is that the images are wide field, and that it’s intended for patients who are dilated. It’s…

I’ve had a chance to play with an Arduino Uno for the last few weeks. It’s a really neat programmable controller. So what is an Arduino, and why would anyone want to play with one? In short, an Arduino can be thought of as a simple-to-program standalone computer. The computer is a well established one,…

Anyone working in imaging knows that one major ongoing problem is handling the massive amounts of data collected. A relatively low resolution camera can output massive volumes of data, if combined with a stage, z motor, wavelength switching hardware or just run in video collection mode. Sooner or later, many users end up needing a…

Fujifilm and Panasonic have announced development of an “organic” photoelectric conversion layer in place of a traditional silicon photodiode used in conventional systems. Obviously it will take a while for this technology to trickle into the scientific market, but it promises another evolutionary step forward in the march of both digital image capture and cmos…

This is a cool attachment for the iPhone. An optical system that produces 20X-80x image magnification, and has a contained adjustable illumination source. This is an interesting product, as it will by no means replace a stereo scope for the obvious reasons, but will allow for access to magnification by people who could otherwise not…

Back in mid December I had the unpleasant experience of a large bird flying through my prop. In the aftermath of this event I learned that my engine had to be inspected internally, to determine whether any internal components were damaged due to the incident. My engine was due for an overhaul anyway, so I…