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graph.commit('optics','13 August 2015',$('<div><h4>Optics</h4>Swapped the cheap (and not really sufficient) filters for Comar dichroics. Had to do some super safe glass cutting to make them fit. With this optical set up inside the fluorescence cube, finally managed to register fluorescence properly! Having some issues with the Raspberry Pi camera, though: it tries to be too smart and calculate white balance and exposure time... which actually makes our images worse. Sigh... Working on it.</div>'));
 
graph.commit('optics','13 August 2015',$('<div><h4>Optics</h4>Swapped the cheap (and not really sufficient) filters for Comar dichroics. Had to do some super safe glass cutting to make them fit. With this optical set up inside the fluorescence cube, finally managed to register fluorescence properly! Having some issues with the Raspberry Pi camera, though: it tries to be too smart and calculate white balance and exposure time... which actually makes our images worse. Sigh... Working on it.</div>'));
 
graph.commit('optics','17 August 2015',$('<div><h4>Optics</h4>FLUORESCENCE IS WORKING. We changed the lighting from the LEDs we were using earlier to an arc lamp we lifted off of the department. Boom, GFP beads have been imaged. Now we just need to make it work with our lights and for other wavelengths.</div>'));
 
graph.commit('optics','17 August 2015',$('<div><h4>Optics</h4>FLUORESCENCE IS WORKING. We changed the lighting from the LEDs we were using earlier to an arc lamp we lifted off of the department. Boom, GFP beads have been imaged. Now we just need to make it work with our lights and for other wavelengths.</div>'));
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graph.commit('optics','26 August 2015',$('<div><h4>Hardware Design</h4>This week and a half has been a busy one on the hardware front. We have redesigned our epicube to be much more compact whilst reducing the leaking of light resulting in higher quality images: almost comparable to the Lab microscope! The motors have been powered up so we can get our x-y-z movement automated and the chassis has undergone some minor tweaks and improvements.</div>'));
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graph.commit('optics', '', $('<div><h4>Optics</h4>We have “Resolved” a few problems this week! Brighter LEDs have arrived (for both GFP and RFP) and some new filters for RFP have come in.  Using a sapphire ball lens has helped to improve our resolution substantially and some calculations and testing has been done to select the correct filters for fluorescence and optimise the microscopes field of view and resolution – requests for new designs to be sent to the Hardware folk!</div>'));
  
 
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