• Question: whats the best thing you have built?

    Asked by brfc1875 to Ant, Dan, Matt, Mike, Steph on 14 Mar 2012.
    • Photo: Mike Salter

      Mike Salter answered on 12 Mar 2012:

      Hmmm – I think the camera I’m currently working on for the International Space Station could well be the best – but it’s not finished yet so I can’t be sure!!!

      Whilst at university we made a robot that navigated around a maze on the the floor, we worked really hard on it so that was a great feeling when it was finally complete.

    • Photo: Matt Maddock

      Matt Maddock answered on 13 Mar 2012:

      OK, I know this isn’t really the answer you were looking for, but I think the most fun I had was using Little Big Planet to build mechanical logic gates and then using them to make tiny, simple adding computers on my Playstation.

      At work, though, I probably got the most from building a control system that helps to get our super-conducting cavities (they are part of a particle accelerator that actually push the electrons around the ring) ready to run. Not hugely glamorous, but I had to teach myself quite a lot to make it work and it protects £1,000,000 worth of equipment!

    • Photo: Dan Veal

      Dan Veal answered on 14 Mar 2012:

      As a uni project a small group of us built a “can-sat”, literally a little satellite that fits into a coke can. It could log temperature, pressure, and even had a little GPS receiver, and a little antenna that could send the data to a laptop sitting next to it. We did a few things wrong and it didn’t work perfectly in the end, and it definitely didn’t fly any higher than we could throw it, but it was loads of fun.

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