Nothing could have prepared me for how tiny microchannel plates are! Got to replace them in an icpTOF S2 and it was awesome. #teammassspec

Final product

Taking a break from designing lego mass spectrometers and made my stepdad (an electrical engineer who worked in renewable energy) a solar farm. Needed a mental break from submitting a P41 and editing this manuscript. Thank god both of those are done next week.

Parts came in finally! Very happy with the blue pieces I chose. #teammasspec #chemsky

Next Model: Agilent 5800 ICP-OES with reference picture attached. 49 pieces in total. Sort of a request from colleagues who host an elemental analysis symposium each year at Michigan State in August. Tentatively planning a trivia night and we needed another lego instrument for a prize. #Chemsky

Next model: Bruker D8 Venture Single Crystal XRD (request from friend). Contains simplified Photon CPAD detector and X-ray source with space for a small colored stud of whatever color you want your crystals to be. A reference photo from internet is attached. (Reposting to this thread) #Chemsky

Next model: Bruker D8 Venture Single Crystal XRD (request from friend). Contains simplified Photon CPAD detector and X-ray source with space for a small colored stud of whatever color you want your crystals to be. A reference photo from internet is attached. #Chemsky

This has been made, and it came out perfectly. Still waiting on the ICP-TOF parts to come in (you can see the current build behind my hand LOL) #teammassspec #Chemsky

Final product has been made! It’s a lot smaller than I thought it would be but it’s a perfect paper weight for a desk! #teammassspec #Chemsky

Adding to the #Celegans community with a sneak peak of my next paper coming out in December. I develop mass spectrometry imaging methods for C. elegans imaging as part of my thesis and this paper should be a big deal when it drops. Not spoiling what I’m imaging yet but the community will love it!

Elemental Scientific Lasers imageBIO266 laser ablation system with reference image. Commonly coupled to ICP-MS systems.

Thermo/Tofwerk ICP-TOF with reference image attached. Black hose is for gas line passing samples from laser ablation system to plasma source.

Master thread for Lego analytical instrument designs. First up: Updated Bruker MALDI-timsTOF fleX with reference image attached. 76 parts total.

I’m making lego instrument sets like Thermo, but for equipment my lab uses. First up: Bruker MALDI-timsTOF fleX. 60 pieces total, but I need to double check the color blue I want. If people are interested in sets I make I’ll share the part lists and instructions to build. #teammassspec

Cryptically leaving this post for #Chemsky and #teammassspec to decipher. It’ll all make sense in the next 6 months 👀

Me in lab after 10 hours: