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  • Caption CERN Contest Week 23

  • Week 23: 7/8/2015 - 9pm PDT 7/15/2015Something a bit different this week. CERN is probably best known for the various particle accelerators they've had over the years. One of the first units was synchrocyclotron SC-1, which operated from 1957 to 1974....
  • Caption CERN Contest Week 3

  • Week 3: 2/17/2015 - 9pm PDT 2/24/2015Link to the original CERN image. Behind all that gleaming stainless steel high energy physics equipment were rooms full of controls, computers, and data acquisition equipment. This scientist looks a bit perplexed...
  • Caption CERN Contest Week 20

  • Week 20: 6/17/2015 - 9pm PDT 6/24/2015Anyone who's worked on a major project, be it professional, personal, or for a contest like The Hackaday Prize, knows about marathon sessions. Those times when you put in your all and just push the project ahead...
  • Caption CERN Contest Week 15

  • Week 15: 5/13/2015 - 9pm PDT 5/20/2015Accidents happen! When you're working on the bleeding edge of science and technology, things don't always go as planned. In this image, we're looking at what appears to be the result of some sort of failure. We're...
  • Caption CERN Contest Week 23 Winner

  • Week 23 of the Caption CERN Contest has been laid to rest. Thanks to all the entrants who stopped by to pay their condolences and leave captions for the dearly departed SC-1 . CERN engineers and scientists are a crafty bunch, so I'm betting that SC-1's...
  • Caption CERN Contest Week 2 Winner

  • We had some great entries this week! The Funnies:"Here's a nice pic of me and mom after a day in Geneva", said Sheila Armbruster, who just celebrated her 25th anniversary of being the first successful extra-utero baby born at CERN cloning labs. - No_Hazmats"What...
  • Caption CERN Contest Week 4 Winner

  • Week 4 of the Caption CERN contest is in the can! Let's check out the round-up!The Funnies:"I don't wanna work, I want to bang on these drums all day....." - RoboMonkey"Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Missing Particle. Never has the solution been...
  • Caption CERN Contest Week 8 Winner

  • Thanks for another week of great captions! We still aren't sure if our CERN staffer is looking at that machine pensively, amorously, or with a bit of confusion, but you all all found some great words to go with the image! The Funnies:"Dr. Breman's early...
  • Caption CERN Contest Week 18 Winner

  • Week 18 has faded into history, but not before you wrote some great captions! A hearty thanks to all the entrants. Astute reader jlbrian7 has done it again! He's uncovered the truth behind this image. The woman in this photo is manually analyzing photographs...
  • Caption CERN Contest Week 13 Winner

  • Week 13 might be gone, but our intrepid scientist is still rocking his caffine rush! Thanks for the captions! We're still trying to figure out if the faces in on the wall are anyone famous - and who exactly are in the cartoon postcards toward the top...
  • Caption CERN Contest Week 21 Winner

  • Week 21 of the Caption CERN Contest is now history. It's been a great week of captions, so as always a huge thank you goes out to everyone who entered. We still have no idea what these two CERN scientists were working on. lenses, switches, and a giant...
  • Caption CERN Contest Week 24 Winner

  • Week 24 of the Caption CERN Contest has was one for the books. There were so many good captions that we had a hard time picking a winner! Thank you to everyone who wrote up a caption and entered the contest. We still don't know quite what this device...
  • Caption CERN Contest Week 17 Winner

  • Week 17 may now be a polished sheet metal memory, but the captions live on! Thanks to everyone who entered. We may never know exactly what these scientists and their ladder holding friend were up to. We do know a bit more about some of the equipment...
  • CERN open hardware license. ? Or any alternative

  • Does anyone have experience with this?  http://www.ohwr.org/projects/cernohl/wikiDo we just say or product is licensed under this or do we fill in some forms & register it with them or?Anyone know of any alternatives.  I am trying to find the...
  • Caption CERN Contest Week 3 Winner

  • Another week of great entries here on the Caption CERN contest. The Funnies:"The smell of burnt flesh hung heavily in the air as Tom reviewed the command sequence he had run through the institute's new talking computer. To his horror, he realized that...