• Question: How many things have you made?

    Asked by Nero365 to Tomas, Sylvain, Sarah, James, Dawn on 16 Nov 2016.
    • Photo: Dawn Gillies

      Dawn Gillies answered on 16 Nov 2016:


      Lots! Fairy lights, a radio, a magnetic gear shifter, a bit of safety equipment for the large hadron collider, some software that analyses images, speakers, minesweeper…… and loads more!

    • Photo: Sarah Hampson

      Sarah Hampson answered on 16 Nov 2016:


      I’ve made different 3D-printed microchips for analysing cells. I’ve also made a microchip for spinning cells around and separating them into different cell types.

      At university I made smart windows (windows that change colour) out of materials from wood and crab shells. They could change from clear to blue, like these:

    • Photo: Sylvain Jamais

      Sylvain Jamais answered on 16 Nov 2016:


      In my career so far (18 years) I must have worked on a total of 30 projects

    • Photo: James Clarke

      James Clarke answered on 16 Nov 2016:


      Maybe between 10 and 20, but it’s hard to say! Ummm… wearable sensors, fake bomb defusing robots, sense detecting gloves, greenhouse monitor, blink mario, muscle controlled gear shifter, a marble pump, a hanging garden bed..

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