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2026-05-16 23:07:27 UTC

we have successfully achieved gamerification of our SEM's image processing unit (BIVAS)
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2026-04-12 19:43:46 UTC

amogus-scale features now possible at fafo
(behold, the sharpie lift-off process: scribble your substrate with a sharpie, deposit Al, dissolve sharpie with acetone)
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2026-03-27 23:29:44 UTC

fafo logistics: "poor decisions, delivered fast"
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2025-12-27 13:03:41 UTC

You! Yes, you, at #39C3 ! Come to our self-organized-session-talk thing!
“FAFO: How we stopped worrying and bought an Electron Microscope”
SoS Stage H, at 00:01 on day 3 (so in ~34 hours after this was posted).
More details: https://events.ccc.de/congress/2025/hub/en/room/detail/sos-stage-h/
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2025-12-07 16:15:27 UTC

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Zoomed in, taken via external scan. Sorry, no scale, need to write/find a better conversion tool.
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2025-12-07 16:08:22 UTC

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x60 magnification, BSE, taken on Zeiss DSM directly.
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2025-12-07 16:05:52 UTC

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Mounted on the SEM stage.
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2025-12-07 16:03:16 UTC

Today at FAFO: hitting rocks (in this case pyrite) with a hammer and then putting it under a SEM.
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2024-11-22 23:50:01 UTC

Hello!
Do you have too much money? Would you like to give us some of that money?
Well, we've got quite the news for you: we can now accept donations! And if you're in Germany, you can tax deduct them, too.
https://wiki.fa-fo.de/orga:donate
All of your donations will go towards our statutory goals. In practice that means you'll be eg. funding equipment and supplies for our DIY semiconductor research.
(note: we will _probably not_ spend this money on golden-plated gardena couplings)

2024-10-29 22:43:46 UTC

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2024-10-29 21:50:00 UTC

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You know, this actually isn't too bad.
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2024-10-29 21:45:47 UTC

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Photographic proof of Science happening
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2024-10-29 21:44:06 UTC

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Let's find out!
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2024-10-29 21:06:54 UTC

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Sorry... is this better?
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2024-10-29 20:41:44 UTC

FAFO presents: Gardena to ISO KF 16 High Vacuum adapter.
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2024-10-18 22:40:02 UTC

Today our PDP11 learned its first important lesson: You need to FA to FO! Bare metal C code with a custom asm trampoline, no stdlib, cross-compiled for pdp11 from gcc-14.2 on macOS arm64, exported as a paper tape of all things, loaded via remote desktop to a windows machine that loads it via serial into RAM via the ODT mode. Almost just like in the old days. Almost.
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2024-10-10 19:46:57 UTC

we get signal
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2024-09-22 15:11:07 UTC

nice and clean
(please ignore the slight surface rust issue on the o-ring mating surface)
(please also ignore the caked on tar on the core)
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2024-09-22 14:03:37 UTC

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2024-09-22 14:00:16 UTC

⚠️ Prohibited anhydrous boot! ❌ 💦 🥾
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