Open Beam Interface

> Built on Glasgow [Interface Explorer]

Now there’s a name I haven’t heard in a long time. It’s meant to be a sort of digital Swiss Army knife, where you can connect almost any digital interface to a computer and do basically anything with it programmatically. I’ll have to pick one up now that it looks like they’re released.

I’ll probably still end up using an arduino as my one-off IC-to-PC interface device just out of habit and not needing to read any documentation, but I love the idea.

I've seen some people using the Diligent Analog Discovery 2 / 3, which houses really similar Analog Devices 14-bit DACs / ADCs as this project but in a premade product, to do similar 'modernization' of older laboratory equipment.

Here is Dave from EEVblog showing off the new one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5SbNnaMM1tQ

Love seeing hardware hacking!

tl;dr this looks like a full stack description of a hobbyist scanning electron microscope [0]. 'Full stack', here, means gerber files of a pcb with an fpga that 'controls the beam and gets an image', 'gateware' to configure the fpga, and some python scripts that read an image from the fpga and serve it as a web page drawing to a canvas with shader instructions.

[0] https://www.nanographs.io/