Nanographs is obsessive when it comes to hacking and maintaining electron (and ion) microscope. The goal is to enable more people to truly own these systems. Through freely shared information and resourceful engineering the pathway to teaching old microscopes new tricks and microscope owners new skills is opned.
Adam McCombs started in this field from a place of discovery, getting a vintage system on eBay and spending the next 8 months in the garage figuring out how to get a beam and then an image. As he found the rest of the electron microscope community he realized that his unrestricted approach to working with microscopes (backed by skills as an engineer and hacker) was filling needs for people who wanted to deviate at all from the yellow brick road of microscope design, modification, use, and ownership laid out by OEMs.
Nanographs has worked on microscopes from every major OEM (JEOL, Hitachi, ISI, Philips, FEI, Zeiss, Tescan, Amray) and every vintage (1960s to today). Nanographs is at home with SEMs, TEMs, FIBs, and any other combination of beams and coils.
In 2021 Nanographs moved into its new 2000 sqft NW Portland workshop and imaging lab. It has hosted a varity of SEMs, TEMs, and FIBs. The ceiling is 27’, your 300kv JEOL monster TEM from the 90s is welcome.
