The title for this blog was originally going to be “The First Thirty Years Were The Worst” until I realised that I’d already used that one in 2015! In case you doubt my sanity (although that’s a questionable issue in…
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Special Introductory Offer on our Consultancy Rates But first of all, if you are an existing or potential Cairn customer, there is no need to worry. We’ve always been happy to give free and no-obligation advice on any of our…
At Cairn we’ve been involved with filterwheels for rather longer than we care to remember, but it has nevertheless taken us a while to develop our latest offering, in the form of the Optospin. That’s because there was a fair…
The United Cairndom is Coming! Well, we keep thinking that each Cairnland instalment is going to be the last, but as the Brexit fiasco continues to scale new heights of absurdity, we once again find ourselves struggling to compete! However,…
CAIRN’S CONTINUING MISSION: TO BOLDLY SPLIT IMAGES THAT NOONE HAS SPLIT BEFORE! On second thoughts, perhaps we should leave the splitting of infinitives to intrepid starship captains, but when it comes to the splitting of images, your first thoughts should…
Well, after three previous episodes, we thought we’d exhausted all the possibilities for our “Cairnland” spoof, but as reality continues to trump satire, here we are again in a vain effort to catch up! For those of you who had…
Our new building is finally nearing completion, and more people are now moving in! The new and enlarged mechanical workshop, complete with shiny new CNC mill, has been up and running since before Christmas, but the other areas are now…
Nowadays November for Cairn means Neuroscience, which is in Washington DC again this year, so this is where Jez Danielle and Martin currently find themselves. Or at least Jez and Danielle currently do. Martin on the other hands seems to…
This particular blog came into existence because James our Marketing Director asked me to write something about our FuraLED illuminator, but I realised there was potentially so much to say on the subject that I couldn’t just do that on…
For more years than we care to remember, we have wanted to develop a confocal microscope based on a spatial light modulator, and at long last we have a design that performs well enough for us to commercialise. Would you…
