My new Tronxy X1 has been a lot of fun to put together. The tricky part was finding the right setting for the slicer. Turns out it is not that difficult at all. I was able to download my favorite OpenSource slicer, CURA and needed to type in the specifications …

My "baby" brother is a new professor and designing an additive manufacturing course for his students. He found a fairly affordable (price of a typical textbook) 3D printer kit called a Tronxy X1 for his students to put together and take home.

To get ready, he and I purchased our …

Lithophans are one of my favorite things to 3D print. I have written software in MATLAB and python that can convert images to lithophans. Most years I design a lithophan and 3D printable frame to give away to family for Christmas and each year I like to try to do …

Xiaoxing (Adele) Han is a videographer who made some amazing videos to help promote research being done in our department. The following is the video she made of my research which I am very excited to share. I think she did a great job!

Thank you Adele!!!

A group working over in Plant and Soil Sciences are experts on ImageJ but are relatively new to the HPCC. Together we put together a workflow for getting ImageJ up and running on the HPCC.

Step 1: Log onto the HPCC with an X11 connection

Log onto the HPC using …

I just got out of giving a presentation about the CMSE department as part of the Sixth SC Workshop on Best Practices for HPC Training and Education (BPHTE19) workshop at SC19. It was fun to show people what we are doing in CMSE and share our progress. Here is a …

Since moving into our new home I have been wanting to build/buy a workbench for my shop. I have been living with a piece of plywood on some saw horses (bowing in the middle). I wanted something more rugged but on casters so I could roll the bench out …

I had the honor of recently being featured in an ASEE PRISM Magazine article about research facilitation.

An essential, if not yet well-defined, field is emerging at the intersection of research and the high-performance machines that make sense of big data. By Lucy Birmingham and Mark Matthews

See the full …

Summer 2019 CMSE CMSE Undergraduate Intern Poster presentation at MidSure by Shelby Santos

Raspberry Pis (RPis) are affordable microcomputers (approx. $35) that have the capability to revolutionize the accuracy and efficiency of data collection in basic laboratory environments. Recreationally, RPis can be used as a base for smart televisions, home …

Summer 2019 ENSURE Student Poster presentation at MidSure by Ana Flavia Borges de Almeida Barreto

A Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) is an integrated circuit that can be “rewired” to become other circuits. This ability makes FPGAs highly configurable and can significantly help speed up large scale computation used in …