About me.
Hi, I'm Tim Williams and this is my little web site devoted to my hobby of valve audio and related topics. My "day job" (in fact, only job) is research in high resolution transmission electron microscopy. I take pictures of atoms, crystal structures, carry out materials science research and teach others to do the same.
The two pictures above were recorded by me using a JEOL 2100F 200kV STEM system. Both show the structures of the materials at atomic resolution. The walls of the "heart" are only 5 layers of carbon thick (1.7 nanometres) and the heart itself is about 2 million times smaller than yours.
Away from the lab, I like to mess about making amps, loudspeakers, keep bees, brew mead, and help my wife with her passion-gardening.
This web site is non-commercial and is for amusement and encouragement of other DIY'ers only. The opinions expressed here are my own and I include links that I believe to be accurate, useful, honest and worth supporting. I am indebted to Kenji-san, without whose great and generous advice and support, I'd never have become a valve amplifier addict. Please visit his site, single-ended-dot-com.
The two pictures above were recorded by me using a JEOL 2100F 200kV STEM system. Both show the structures of the materials at atomic resolution. The walls of the "heart" are only 5 layers of carbon thick (1.7 nanometres) and the heart itself is about 2 million times smaller than yours.
Away from the lab, I like to mess about making amps, loudspeakers, keep bees, brew mead, and help my wife with her passion-gardening.
This web site is non-commercial and is for amusement and encouragement of other DIY'ers only. The opinions expressed here are my own and I include links that I believe to be accurate, useful, honest and worth supporting. I am indebted to Kenji-san, without whose great and generous advice and support, I'd never have become a valve amplifier addict. Please visit his site, single-ended-dot-com.
Beekeeping in Victoria, Australia
I keep three or four hives of hard-working and gentle bees in our back garden and they keep us and everyone we know oversupplied with wonderful honey.
Biking in Victoria
Less often than I would like, I get to ride my 2010 Triumph Tiger 1050. Here it is, basking in the Australian summer sun.
The famous garden
We grow a lot of our own vegetables and fruit- not quite self sufficient because we also buy in manure and such, but at least we don't use much supermarket high-carbon footprint food. The veggies grow in five, 5 x 2 metre raised beds that have an automatic dripper watering system (tank rainwater) that I built. We also have a variety of fruit, berry and other exotic trees.