• Question: What is the coolest thing you have ever made?

    Asked by heyitsalice to Amanda, Ben, Dan, Gary, Samer on 24 Jun 2013.
    • Photo: Ben Drumm

      Ben Drumm answered on 24 Jun 2013:

      Best thing I’ve made so far was a beam profile monitor – a gizmo which tells us the shape of our proton beam.

      The scientist gave me the actual monitor (which looks kinda like a circuit board) and told me that it had to sit in a vacuum vessel and rotate between 0 and 90 degrees with a set of electric field plates beneath it.

      I did the rest i.e. designed the vessel and worked out how to stop the monitor at 0 and 90 degrees etc. and got it made. It’s now installed in our synchrotron and runs like a dream! (In fact, the scientist is planning to buy some more!)

    • Photo: Gary Boorman

      Gary Boorman answered on 25 Jun 2013:

      An ice cube.

    • Photo: Samer Kilani

      Samer Kilani answered on 26 Jun 2013:

      I managed to create a wireless electricity transmission system. A system which allows you to recharge your phones, tablets, etc. whithout connecting them to any power sockets. All you have to do is have a transmission station at the corner of the room and everything within the room could be charged with no hassle 🙂 no more tripping over wires 🙂

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