User:Andy Maloney/Engineering

Intro

When making science, there is a rather large number of things needed to be done in order to get it running. Things such as the design of equipment, purchasing equipment, or even repairs to old equipment. In this page, I will link to my notebook entries that deal with what I deem are engineering aspects to either old projects, side projects, or continuing projects that I am working on.

I will also link to all my open science forum posts and any posts that are related to progressing how I do open science and the technologies that I use.

Notebook

• Andy Maloney/Notebook/Lab Notebook of Andy Maloney/2009/02/19/Sketchup
  • Categories: AM Engineering, Sketchup
  • Description: This page talks about my Google warehouse where I have uploaded all my Sketchup models of optomechanics. The link to the ware house is here.
• Andy Maloney/Notebook/Lab Notebook of Andy Maloney/2009/02/24/Wetlab
  • Categories: AM Engineering, Wet lab
  • Description: Brainstorming the wetlab install.
• Andy Maloney/Notebook/Lab Notebook of Andy Maloney/2009/02/25/Optical tweezers
  • Categories: AM Engineering, Optical tweezers
  • Description: Best surplus optics supplier around!
• Andy Maloney/Notebook/Lab Notebook of Andy Maloney/2009/03/06/Optical Tweezers
  • Categories: AM Engineering, Condenser detector stage, Optical tweezers
  • Description: Lamenting about the condenser adapter that fits into Thorlabs' 60mm cage cube.
• Andy Maloney/Notebook/Lab Notebook of Andy Maloney/2009/03/09/Optical tweezer
  • Categories: AM Engineering, Condenser detector stage, Optical tweezers
  • Description: More lamenting on the condenser adapter.
• Andy Maloney/Notebook/Lab Notebook of Andy Maloney/2009/04/15/Optical tweezers
  • Categories: AM Engineering, Optical tweezers, Optical tweezers calibration
  • Description: Optical tweezer calibration overview and my thoughts on what it means.
• Andy Maloney/Notebook/Lab Notebook of Andy Maloney/2009/04/17/Kinesin & Microtubules
  • Categories: AM Engineering
  • Description: Parts ordering.
• Andy Maloney/Notebook/Lab Notebook of Andy Maloney/2009/04/27
  • Categories: AM Engineering
  • Description: My first LabVIEW program.
• Andy Maloney/Notebook/Lab Notebook of Andy Maloney/2009/04/28/Koch Lab Kinesin Logo
  • Categories: AM Engineering, Kinesin and microtubules
  • Description: Birth of Kiney.
• Andy Maloney/Notebook/Lab Notebook of Andy Maloney/2009/05/28
  • Categories: AM Engineering
  • Description: Closed signs vent.
• Andy Maloney/Notebook/Lab Notebook of Andy Maloney/2009/06/01/In the lab
  • Categories: AM Engineering
  • Description: More lab work stuff.
• Andy Maloney/Notebook/Lab Notebook of Andy Maloney/2009/06/02/In the lab
  • Categories: AM Engineering
  • Description: Ordering stuff for the kinesin project.
• Andy Maloney/Notebook/Lab Notebook of Andy Maloney/2009/06/25/Liposomes and kinesin
  • Categories: AM Engineering, Kinesin and microtubules, Surface passivation
  • Description: Doing calculations on the amount of lipids needed to coat a cover slip. The idea was to use lipids as the passivation for the kinesin and microtubule experiments.
• Andy Maloney/Notebook/Lab Notebook of Andy Maloney/2009/06/26/Optical tweezers
  • Categories: 1064 optical tweezers, AM Engineering, Optical tweezers
  • Description: Since the diode laser proved to not be useful, we got a 1064nm laser to build an optical tweezers.
• Andy Maloney/Notebook/Lab Notebook of Andy Maloney/2009/06/27/1064 Optical tweezers
  • Categories: 1064 optical tweezers, AM Engineering, Optical tweezers
  • Description: Working with the 1064 optical tweezers and the unusual power modulator we borrowed.
• Andy Maloney/Notebook/Lab Notebook of Andy Maloney/2009/07/01/1064 optical tweezers
  • Categories: AM Engineering, Optical tweezers
  • Description: Talking about the periscope, how to align the beam through the microscope and some steering optics.
• Andy Maloney/Notebook/Lab Notebook of Andy Maloney/2009/07/03/1064 laser tweezers
  • Categories: AM Engineering, Optical tweezers
  • Description: Talking more about alignment and that I was able to tweeze with the 1064 laser.
• Andy Maloney/Notebook/Lab Notebook of Andy Maloney/2009/07/05/Things to do
  • Categories: AM Engineering
  • Description: Random stuff to be done listed in this entry.
• Andy Maloney/Notebook/Lab Notebook of Andy Maloney/2009/07/06/1064 Optical Tweezers
  • Categories: 1064 optical tweezers, AM Engineering, Optical tweezers
  • Description: Talking about the condenser adapter piece, detector stage and steering optics.
• Andy Maloney/Notebook/Lab Notebook of Andy Maloney/2009/07/07/1064 laser tweezers
  • Categories: 1064 optical tweezers, AM Engineering, Optical tweezers
  • Description: Got new mirrors in for the periscope.
• Andy Maloney/Notebook/Lab Notebook of Andy Maloney/2009/07/08/1064 Optical tweezers
  • Categories: 1064 optical tweezers, AM Engineering, Optical tweezers
  • Description: Setting up detection optics for the tweezers. Some thoughts on purchases.
• Andy Maloney/Notebook/Lab Notebook of Andy Maloney/2009/07/31/Noisy tweezers
  • Categories: AM Engineering, Optical tweezers
  • Description: Thoughts on how to get rid of the noise in the tweezers.
• Andy Maloney/Notebook/Lab Notebook of Andy Maloney/2009/08/05/Microscope setup
  • Categories: AM Engineering, Kinesin and microtubules
  • Description: Issues with visualizing microtubules due to improper installment of the Hg lamp.
• Andy Maloney/Notebook/Lab Notebook of Andy Maloney/2009/08/06/Kiney computer setup
  • Categories: AM Engineering, Kinesin and microtubules
  • Description: Talking about the computer we got from surplus for the kinesin experiments.
• Andy Maloney/Notebook/Lab Notebook of Andy Maloney/2009/08/07/Spin Coater 3000
  • Categories: AM Engineering, Kinesin and microtubules
  • Description: Making of the Spin Coater 3000 from my Spin Master Micro.
• Andy Maloney/Notebook/Lab Notebook of Andy Maloney/2009/08/19/Surface passivation experiment
  • Categories: AM Engineering, Kinesin and microtubules, Surface passivation
  • Description: Talking about the whole casein issue and how it doesn't go into solution very easily. I did heat up the solution for the first time and started to question why no one has done this before.
• Andy Maloney/Notebook/Lab Notebook of Andy Maloney/2009/09/14/Ethics course 3
  • Categories: AM Engineering, Ethics course
  • Description: More vocabulary from the ethics professor.
• Andy Maloney/Notebook/Lab Notebook of Andy Maloney/2009/09/21/The chemistry of kinesin and microtubule buffers
  • Categories: AM Engineering, Kinesin and microtubule basics, Kinesin and microtubules
  • Description: Precursor page to my kinesin and microtubule procedure page. Talks about cleaning, the chemicals used in the assay and the buffers used.
• Andy Maloney/Notebook/Lab Notebook of Andy Maloney/2009/09/21/Ethics course Lecture 3 or 4
  • Categories: AM Engineering, Ethics course
  • Description: More vocabulary I mean, more ethics course.
• Andy Maloney/Notebook/Lab Notebook of Andy Maloney/2009/09/23/Websites to emulate
  • Categories: AM Engineering
  • Description: Ideas about changing the horrid physics website at UNM.
• Andy Maloney/Notebook/Lab Notebook of Andy Maloney/2009/09/28
  • Categories: AM Engineering
  • Description: Lessons on how to be pretentiousness, I mean my ethics course.
• Andy Maloney/Notebook/Lab Notebook of Andy Maloney/2009/09/29/New stuff
  • Categories: AM Engineering, Andy's stock solutions, Kinesin and microtubules
  • Description: Received new chemicals to start making new solutions.
• Andy Maloney/Notebook/Lab Notebook of Andy Maloney/2009/09/30/Preparing for experiments
  • Categories: AM Engineering, Andy's stock solutions, Kinesin and microtubules
  • Description: Making new ATP aliquots. I didn't label my tubes in the pic but I eventually did since you should label everything in the lab.
• Andy Maloney/Notebook/Lab Notebook of Andy Maloney/2009/10/19/Operation graduation
  • Categories: AM Engineering
  • Description: Plans for gradu...hahahahahaha...tion.
• Andy Maloney/Notebook/Lab Notebook of Andy Maloney/2009/10/20/Heavy water
  • Categories: AM D2O, AM Engineering, Kinesin and microtubules
  • Description: Preparation of Heavy-PEM.
• Andy Maloney/Notebook/Lab Notebook of Andy Maloney/2009/10/23/Protocols
  • Categories: AM Engineering
  • Description: Talking about a new protocol page for my flow cells.
• Andy Maloney/Notebook/Lab Notebook of Andy Maloney/2009/10/23/Autoclave
  • Categories: AM Engineering
  • Description: Talking about how dirty our autoclave is and how it may affect my stuff.
• Andy Maloney/Notebook/Lab Notebook of Andy Maloney/2009/10/24
  • Categories: AM Engineering
  • Description: Irritating pest problem.
• Andy Maloney/Notebook/Lab Notebook of Andy Maloney/2009/10/28
  • Categories: AM Engineering
  • Description: Listing things to do.
• Andy Maloney/Notebook/Lab Notebook of Andy Maloney/2009/10/29
  • Categories: AM Engineering
  • Description: To do list.
• Andy Maloney/Notebook/Lab Notebook of Andy Maloney/2009/10/29/Lipid stuff
  • Categories: AM Engineering, Kinesin and microtubules, Surface passivation
  • Description: Lamenting on lipid solubility and my procedures for getting them into solution. Also, more computer issues with the microscope setup.
• Andy Maloney/Notebook/Lab Notebook of Andy Maloney/2009/11/14
  • Categories: AM Engineering, Kinesin and microtubules
  • Description: Posters for the DTRA meeting.
• Andy Maloney/Notebook/Lab Notebook of Andy Maloney/2009/12/11
  • Categories: AM Engineering
  • Description: Looking at how permalinks work.
• Andy Maloney/Notebook/Lab Notebook of Andy Maloney/2009/12/29
  • Categories: AM Engineering, Kinesin and microtubules
  • Description: Looking at how median filtering works. We ultimately don't use this technique anymore for our data analysis.
• Andy Maloney/Notebook/Lab Notebook of Andy Maloney/2010/01/12/OWW suggestions
  • Categories: AM Engineering
  • Description: Silly idea that I could possibly be able to suggest improvements to OWW.
• Andy Maloney/Notebook/Lab Notebook of Andy Maloney/2010/01/19/Phase grating
  • Categories: AM Engineering, Optical tweezers
  • Description: A description of what a phase grating is.
• Andy Maloney/Notebook/Lab Notebook of Andy Maloney/2010/01/20/Casein constituents
  • Categories: AM Engineering, Kinesin and microtubules, Surface passivation
  • Description: Received casein constituents in today and made 0.5mg/mL PEM solutions with them in it.
• Andy Maloney/Notebook/Lab Notebook of Andy Maloney/2010/01/29
  • Categories: AM Engineering
  • Description: Testing embedding Friendfeed threads in my notebook.
• Andy Maloney/Notebook/Lab Notebook of Andy Maloney/2010/02/10
  • Categories: AM Engineering
  • Description: Playing around with Google Buzz embedding.
• Andy Maloney/Notebook/Lab Notebook of Andy Maloney/2010/02/10/PBL1
  • Categories: AM Engineering, Nanoparticles course
  • Description: Irritating classwork.
• Andy Maloney/Notebook/Lab Notebook of Andy Maloney/2010/03/01/Problem based learning 2
  • Categories: AM Engineering
  • Description: More irritating classwork.
• Andy Maloney/Notebook/Lab Notebook of Andy Maloney/2010/03/08/Fixed microtubules
  • Categories: AM Engineering, Kinesin and microtubules
  • Description: Trying to use poly-L-lysine to fix microtubules to the glass slides. Also looking at speckling on microtubules due to where the rhodamine labels are when I polymerize them.
• Andy Maloney/Notebook/Lab Notebook of Andy Maloney/2010/03/31/Fun with dynamic page listings
  • Categories: AM Engineering
  • Description: Learning how to use DPL and templates on the wiki.
• Andy Maloney/Notebook/Lab Notebook of Andy Maloney/2010/07/20
  • Categories: AM Engineering, AM Surface passivation paper, Kinesin and microtubules
  • Description: Making new solutions.
• Andy Maloney/Notebook/Lab Notebook of Andy Maloney/2010/07/26/Notebook Entries
  • Categories: AM Engineering, Kinesin and microtubules
  • Description: Friendfeed thread talking about notebook entries
• Andy Maloney/Notebook/Lab Notebook of Andy Maloney/2010/07/26/Whole casein failure
  • Categories: AM Engineering, AM SurfacePassivationMTs&Kinesin, AM Surface passivation paper, Kinesin and microtubule basics, Kinesin and microtubules
  • Description: Making W-PEM and the failures that I encountered making it.
• Andy Maloney/Notebook/Lab Notebook of Andy Maloney/2010/07/26/Microscope repair
  • Categories: AM Engineering, AM Surface passivation paper, Kinesin and microtubules, Optical tweezers
  • Description: Repairing an IX71 microscope.
• Andy Maloney/Notebook/Lab Notebook of Andy Maloney/2010/07/30
  • Categories: AM Engineering
  • Description: Noting Google's ability for me to upload my data in movie form to my account.
• Andy Maloney/Notebook/Lab Notebook of Andy Maloney/2010/08/03/Temperature probe
  • Categories: AM Engineering, AM Surface passivation paper, Kinesin and microtubules
  • Description: Getting the temperature probe working for the temperature stabilized objective.
• Andy Maloney/Notebook/Lab Notebook of Andy Maloney/2010/08/04/Solutions
  • Categories: AM Engineering, AM Surface passivation paper, Kinesin and microtubules, Surface passivation
  • Description: Again with the remaking of buffers and solutions.
• Andy Maloney/Notebook/Lab Notebook of Andy Maloney/2010/08/06/Temperature stabilization
  • Categories: AM Engineering, AM Surface passivation paper, Kinesin and microtubules
  • Description: Epoxied the second thermistor to the objective since the oil used kept seeping under the tape.
• Andy Maloney/Notebook/Lab Notebook of Andy Maloney/2010/08/08
  • Categories: AM Engineering
  • Description: Finally finished tagging my notebook entries.
• Andy Maloney/Notebook/Lab Notebook of Andy Maloney/2010/08/11/More caseins
  • Categories: AM Engineering, AM Surface passivation paper, Kinesin and microtubules, Surface passivation
  • Description: Taking the last bits of data for the bovine casein comparison experiment.
• Andy Maloney/Notebook/Lab Notebook of Andy Maloney/2010/08/12/PLoS ONE Requirements
  • Categories: AM Engineering
  • Description: Shorter description for the requirements for submitting a paper to PLoS ONE.
• Andy Maloney/Notebook/Lab Notebook of Andy Maloney/2010/08/13/More casein data taking
  • Categories: AM Engineering, AM Surface passivation paper, Kinesin and microtubules, Surface passivation
  • Description: Getting the last data points for the passivation study. Also, dealing with the virtualbox update. And, making a stage micrometer.
• Andy Maloney/Notebook/Lab Notebook of Andy Maloney/2010/08/26/Group meeting
  • Categories: AM Engineering, Kinesin and microtubules
  • Description: Group meeting.
• Andy Maloney/Notebook/Lab Notebook of Andy Maloney/2010/09/17/Gliding motility assay movie
  • Categories: AM Engineering, Kinesin and microtubules, Surface passivation
  • Description: Short cartoon of the gliding motiltiy assay.
• Andy Maloney/Notebook/Lab Notebook of Andy Maloney/2010/10/04
  • Categories: AM Engineering, Kinesin and microtubules
  • Description: Working with Nadia about slide cleaning and the kinesin page. Also, looking at how to automate the tobacco seed experiment.
• Andy Maloney/Notebook/Lab Notebook of Andy Maloney/2010/10/12/Water isotope study
  • Categories: AM Engineering, AM Water isotope study, Kinesin and microtubules
  • Description: Continuing the water isotope studies.
• Andy Maloney/Notebook/Lab Notebook of Andy Maloney/2011/01/21/New flow cell
  • Categories: AM Engineering, AM Water isotope study, Kinesin and microtubules
  • Description: Continued looking into the flow cell that can exchange fluid for more than one experiment.
• Andy Maloney/Notebook/Lab Notebook of Andy Maloney/2011/01/24/Reusable flow cell
  • Categories: AM Engineering, AM Water isotope study, Kinesin and microtubules
  • Description: Mapping what to do with the new reusable flow cell.
• Andy Maloney/Notebook/Lab Notebook of Andy Maloney/2011/01/25/Reusable flow cell
  • Categories: AM Engineering, AM Water isotope study, Kinesin and microtubules
  • Description: Testing the reusable flow cell.
• Andy Maloney/Notebook/Lab Notebook of Andy Maloney/2011/01/26/Resealable flow cell
  • Categories: AM Engineering, AM Water isotope study, Kinesin and microtubules
  • Description: Showing data about the resealable flow cell.
• Andy Maloney/Notebook/Lab Notebook of Andy Maloney/2011/01/28/Resealable flow cell
  • Categories: AM Engineering, AM Water isotope study, Kinesin and microtubules
  • Description: Another round of data taking with the resealable flow cell.
• Andy Maloney/Notebook/Lab Notebook of Andy Maloney/2011/02/10/New stock solutions
  • Categories: AM Engineering, AM Water isotope study, Kinesin and microtubules
  • Description: Making new stock solutions

All things related to a diode laser

• Andy Maloney/Notebook/Lab Notebook of Andy Maloney/2009/02/19/Optical tweezers
  • Categories: AM Engineering, Diode laser, Optical tweezers, Sample translation stage
  • Description: Brainstorming the parts needed for an optical tweezers.
• Andy Maloney/Notebook/Lab Notebook of Andy Maloney/2009/02/22/Optical tweezers
  • Categories: AM Engineering, Beam shaping, Diode laser, Optical tweezers, Sample translation stage, Spatial filtering
  • Description: Thoughts on beam shaping and spatial filtering. More talk of the optical tweezers.
• Andy Maloney/Notebook/Lab Notebook of Andy Maloney/2009/02/23/Optical tweezers
  • Categories: AM Engineering, Beam shaping, Condenser detector stage, Diode laser, Optical tweezers, Sample translation stage, Spatial filtering
  • Description: Moving on to thinking about the condenser and detector stage.Thoughts on beam shaping and spatial filtering. More talk of the optical tweezers.
• Andy Maloney/Notebook/Lab Notebook of Andy Maloney/2009/03/10/Optical tweezers
  • Categories: AM Engineering, Condenser detector stage, Diode laser, Optical tweezers
  • Description: Final design for the condenser adapter and initial work with the PLT laser diode.
• Andy Maloney/Notebook/Lab Notebook of Andy Maloney/2009/03/17/Optical tweezers
  • Categories: AM Engineering, Diode laser, Optical tweezers
  • Description: Amperage usage in the control box and PID adjustments.
• Andy Maloney/Notebook/Lab Notebook of Andy Maloney/2009/03/18/Optical tweezers
  • Categories: AM Engineering, Condenser detector stage, Diode laser, Optical tweezers
  • Description: Olympus dovetail mount design.
• Andy Maloney/Notebook/Lab Notebook of Andy Maloney/2009/03/19/Optical tweezers
  • Categories: AM Engineering, Diode laser, Optical tweezers
  • Description: Found out that we weren't supplying enough current to the controller thus we weren't able to keep the temperature stable.
• Andy Maloney/Notebook/Lab Notebook of Andy Maloney/2009/03/20/Optical tweezers
  • Categories: AM Engineering, Condenser detector stage, Diode laser, Optical tweezers
  • Description: Update for the dovetail machined from John DeMoss. Also, I talk about some of the output connectors on the control box we can use for monitoring the system.
• Andy Maloney/Notebook/Lab Notebook of Andy Maloney/2009/03/25/Optical tweezers
  • Categories: AM Engineering, Diode laser, Optical tweezers
  • Description: Building the laser diode control box.
• Andy Maloney/Notebook/Lab Notebook of Andy Maloney/2009/03/27/Optical tweezers
  • Categories: AM Engineering, Diode laser, Optical tweezers
  • Description: New power supply build. PID control and talk about anamorphic prisms.
• Andy Maloney/Notebook/Lab Notebook of Andy Maloney/2009/03/31/Optical tweezers
  • Categories: AM Engineering, Diode laser, Optical tweezers
  • Description: More futile attempts at collimating the laser diode.
• Andy Maloney/Notebook/Lab Notebook of Andy Maloney/2009/04/01/Optical tweezers
  • Categories: AM Engineering, Diode laser, Optical tweezers
  • Description: Space issues, collimation and such.
• Andy Maloney/Notebook/Lab Notebook of Andy Maloney/2009/04/02/Optical tweezers
  • Categories: AM Engineering, Diode laser, Optical tweezers
  • Description: Futile belief that the laser is collimated.
• Andy Maloney/Notebook/Lab Notebook of Andy Maloney/2009/04/30/Optical tweezers stuff
  • Categories: AM Engineering, Diode laser, Optical tweezers
  • Description: More on collimating the diode laser.
• Andy Maloney/Notebook/Lab Notebook of Andy Maloney/2009/05/22/Laser diode
  • Categories: AM Engineering, Diode laser, Koch meeting, Spatial filtering
  • Description: Talking about the laser diode and making sure one writes in your notebook even if it's a failure.
• Andy Maloney/Notebook/Lab Notebook of Andy Maloney/2009/06/04/In the lab
  • Categories: AM Engineering, Beam shaping, Diode laser, Optical tweezers
  • Description: More attempts at coupling the diode laser to the fiber optic.
• Andy Maloney/Notebook/Lab Notebook of Andy Maloney/2009/06/08/Laser diode
  • Categories: AM Engineering, Beam shaping, Diode laser, Optical tweezers, Spatial filtering
  • Description: I finally was able to get the fiber collimated. But, it's multimode and I won't figure that multimode lasers don't work for optical tweezers.
• Andy Maloney/Notebook/Lab Notebook of Andy Maloney/2009/06/09/Please sir, may I have some more laser?
  • Categories: AM Engineering, Diode laser, Optical tweezers, Pages with broken file links
  • Description: I was able to make an optical cannon with the diode laser.
• Andy Maloney/Notebook/Lab Notebook of Andy Maloney/2009/06/11
  • Categories: AM Engineering, Diode laser, Optical tweezers
  • Description: I was able to tweeze with the diode laser. But, the forces were way to weak to be useful.