DIY Scanning-Tunneling-Microscope

Anonymous Coward writes "Quote: To give everybody an opportunity to make his own "hands on" experience with the Nanoworld we provide all information to build up and use some of the standard equipment of this fascinating field of science, starting with the Nobel-Prize-Winner of 1986: the Scanning-Tunneling-Microscope (STM). Just follow these handy Instructions" While construction of a stm from these instructions isn't cake, it will give you a good idea of what goes into the building of such an instrument.

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Hey, didn't you get the message?

[the_consumer]

DIY science is dead, people! ;^)

Interesting GPL-ish licensing

[iiii]

I find their GPL-ish licensing (but only for "private or educational" purposes) to be pretty cool.

From their "Licences and Legal Stuff" page:

We grant everybody the right to construct the microscope using the here-published design for private or educational purposes. On these web pages all necessary diagrams, drawings, material descriptions and software-source-codes are published for free access. While granting the right to build the microscope we make it mandatory that new developments, improvements or other applications of our design are also made openly available for private or educational purposes.