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It's done.
I've made all the changes needed to support the UXD v2 files that I get when converting a binary blob RAW4 file using Bruker's conversion utility.
I also removed a bunch of hard coded information and move that to settings files, so it'll be much easier for someone from another university to use this software as it's at least a bit less specific to my x-rays
I do have to rewrite some of the code I wrote yesterday as I'm hard coding things that I could be pulling from the settings file, and I'd like this program to work for humans who are not me working in this specific x-ray lab.
So apparently at some point I wrote up an entire xrd parameter file definition, implemented two example files and wrote all the code to loaded into my program.
no this compliments my new code where I load in a crystallographer override file for a set of experiments, not duplicates it but I still have no memory of writing this part of my program
Ok. I think I've hauled most of the data that I'm CERTAIN about out of the UXD files, which is just adding new exceptions, watching for new lines to parse, and improving existing code and removing bad assumptions now that I've got a larger data set of input files.
now the hard part, adding a new feature so I can specify a specific parameter via the command line since for some reason it is not present in the file
Am I allowed to feel good for fixing SO MANY bugs today if I'm also the one who MADE the bugs?
Me: Why is my program not identifying this as a copper anode? The "_ANODE = Cu" line is RIGHT THERE.
*Searches the relevant part of my program for _ANODE* No results found
Welllllllll that will do it
#realTimeChem my colleague Daniel testing one of our designs for an open-source flow battery test cell, testing some different electrolytes based on zinc, iodine, and iron for https://fbrc.dev
The cell is working much better now and after some changes we made, a lot more of the parts are FDM-printable!
#batteries #EnergyStorage #OpenSourceHardware #Electrochemistry #chemistry
"Not sure it’s completely air-tight, meet our gingerbread glovebox" - "@ChemBakes" #chembakes #RealtimeChem 11:09 AM · Dec 10, 2018 from Twitter of old #Baking #Science #Chemistry
Update: the smell came back. We are once again the crab building #RealTimeChem
the building still smells of crabs today, we are definitely going to have to have a talk about proper procedures for dealing with them in future
The only problem is that they've got 11 buckets of these shells in my lab and the smell is making me nauseous even with the emergency purge on.
having trouble staying in my lab because there's a lab working on circular economy with crab shells that they're sent by a native group on Vancouver Island that is harvesting a species of invasive crabs. they use and sell the meat, but they'd like to find more uses for the shells, so they're working with this engineering group to try and extract lignin from them.
Apparently the issue is the undergrads ignored the instructions to leave the lids off over the weekend so they didn't dry and instead sat wet the whole time.
The hardest to deal with safety hazard: a tripping hazard in the same room we hold the safety committee meetings so EVERYONE can look at it and it an opinion. XD
Oddly enough, the lab flooding was coincidental, but caused us to notice the smoke before any damage was done
a cooling water hose popped off an experiment and they were doing some very high temperature work on wood so the humid rapidly filled up with a metric butt-ton of smoke to the point we could smell it in the lab which is when I noticed it and we got the water shut off and the heat source disconnected
well not officially back online yet, I'm running the first test sample on our pxrd since June!
note to self, on days you know you're going to be working on hoses filled with water all day, bring a fucking spare pair of clothes or two
-the person who just sprayed themselves with scummy cold water right in the chest.