Progress of Reactor MK.III Rebuild
I’ve been working on the new frame ever since I posted the CAD renderings, and the new reactor is finally starting to take shape. The 8020 aluminum has made the entire process extremely quick and easy....
View ArticleBeginnings of Electronic Control System for IEC Fusion Reactor Mk.III
I’ve mentioned in earlier posts that my next reactor will be remotely controlled, however I haven’t really gone in depth as to why. Well, it really all comes down to minimizing neutron dose. While the...
View ArticleIEC Fusion Reactor MK. III Completion, and New Page on DC Magnetron Ion Source
Hello everyone, I haven’t been writing for my website much as I’ve been crazy busy with school and actually working on the reactor, but I finally have some wtuff writtien up about IEC Reactor MK.III in...
View ArticleISEF or Bust!
Recently I competed in a series of local and regional science fairs, and I have been selected as a grand prize winner to head to the Intel International Science Fair in Pittsburgh! I will have the...
View ArticleAnother Belated Update
I’m not going to lie, I totally forgot to update this blog over the summer, but in the future I’m going to try to keep it a bit more current. Anyway, a lot of things have happened since I last posted!...
View ArticleA laser with no optical cavity that operates at atmospheric pressure…wait…what?
Yes, you heard me right, this is a laser that uses no mirrors to bounce light back and forth (an optical cavity or resonator), no special gas mixture, and operates at atmospheric pressure. It’s called...
View ArticleTo Germany I go! Speaking at EHSM in Berlin.
I recently was asked to give the keynote speech at the Exceptionally Hard & Soft Meeting exploring the frontiers of DIY and open source technology in Berlin. I will be talking about how my reactors...
View ArticleA Pen and a Confession
Alright, I need to confess to a terrible habit of mine: I lose pens like it is my job. While I have been making strides in keeping track of my pens it is still a problem, so I figured what might help...
View ArticleTime for Some Hacking!
I have been pretty down recently because rather than building awesome things, I’ve been writing tons of college and scholarship applications. But, that all paid off just a few days ago when I found out...
View ArticleMy Talk in Berlin
Here’s a video of the talk I gave in Berlin about the fusion reactors I’ve built:
View ArticleMIT RoboTube
It took a while, but I’ve finally succeeded in turning my MIT admissions tube into a simple robot that can unfold from its normal tube-like state, roam around, detect obstacles, and determine how to...
View ArticleA Summer at PPPL
I’ve got a job. My first job. And it is freaking awesome. Well, it’s kind of a job. Technically it’s a paid internship, but I guess there’s really not that much of a difference. Anyway, I’m being paid...
View ArticleLensless single pixel cameras are pretty cool… let’s simulate one!
So, a while back I stumbled across this article: http://www.technologyreview.com/view/515651/bell-labs-invents-lensless-camera/ To summarize it, Bell Labs built a single pixel camera that needs no...
View ArticleSome more single pixel imaging experiments
Here are some virtual pictures of an image of a slumbering cat that I found in Beijing. The pictures were generated with the single pixel lensless camera simulation I programmed. Here’s the original...
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