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Steampunk Clockwork Spy Book : This is me all steampunked out at Sakuracon 2009 showing my wears. I vended with some friends. I built 3 of these secret message coding book out of broken clocks and old books that had water or other damage. I glued the pages together and hollowed them out, then installed the clockwork into them. I made the goggles as well.
Steampunk Clockwork Spy Book
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Clockwork Code Device Close up 2
Clockwork Code Device Close up 2
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Clockwork Code Device Close-up
Clockwork Code Device Close-up
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Vote Obama for Change : Vote Obama for Change
Vote Obama for Change
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Coated Sample with Modified New Configuration : Here you see the result of the modifications. Notice the edge of the cloth where the fibers have shifted. You can see the difference between coated and uncoated fibers with the naked eye. This is progress.
Coated Sample with Modified New Configuration
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First Sample Coating with Modified New Configuration : I tried a new placement method for the Carbon fiber cloth samples, but found that the cloth blocked the electron flow inhibiting plasma formation. I further modified the electrodes to quite literaly "get around" this problem by placing a coper wire extension past the sample and around the target housing. This seemed to worl fairly well.
First Sample Coating with Modified New Configuration
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Results of Modifications : Here you see the results of the latest modifications. Plasma forming nicely at the target and not too much elsewhere.
Results of Modifications
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Sputtering Chamber Modifications : I am trying to limit plasma formation to the target disk to ensure that only Palladium-Titanium gets on my Carbon fiber cloth. To do this I had Pyrex glass formed to fit over and around the electrodes to insulate them. This also protects the Neoprene from being singed by hot plasma. This modification took several trips back to the drawing board. Originally I wanted to use only glass, but found that covering the lower stems and base was difficult so I eventually landed on a combination of Neoprene and Pyrex.
Sputtering Chamber Modifications
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Samples for Study : This is a sample I coated in my sputter coater and a piece of it ready to go into the scanning electron microscope. I am cheching them to see if I'm getting uniform coating over the entire swatch of carbon fiber cloth. The stage it is sitting on is insulated and 51mm wide.
Samples for Study
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