At last Wednesday’s event we heard that improvements are most needed in sample collection and processing rather then pure detection technologies

Cambridge researchers develop low-cost production process for carbon nanotubes - i-Teams group looks at application areas.

We’re bringing to market our first Mju-tec branded instrument, the PAM401 4-channel USB pico-ammeter.

An article on page 3 of the Daily Telegraph of Wednesday 30 September 2009 comments on the tests done by the Home Office on an explosives detection device we designed and built for our client Inscentinel Ltd.

Another interesting read was Critical Mass by Philip Ball, in which he explores how the complex behaviour of crowds - people, grains of sand or molecules - can be governed by each participating “agent” adhering to very simple rules. He uses insights from the field of statistical physics to model situations where human crowds interact, [...]

I’ve just read “Small things considered” by Henry Petroski. The book is subtitled “why there is no perfect design”, and explains how product design is shaped by constraints that are often conflicting and change over time. He uses everyday, seemingly trivial objects as examples - like the paperclip. Although the idea of the paperclip itself [...]

New Awaiba CMOS image sensor less then 1mm diameter

For three years the small Chester Conquest mini-mill in my workshop has served me well. It enabled me to quickly make up parts for prototypes or adapt ones that were bought but needed a bit of fiddling with. It is small but most of the parts I need to make are small too. I’ve been [...]