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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....

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Beginnings 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...

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IEC 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...

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ISEF 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...

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Another 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!...

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A 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...

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To 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...

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A 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...

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Time 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...

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My Talk in Berlin

Here’s a video of the talk I gave in Berlin about the fusion reactors I’ve built:

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MIT 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...

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A 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...

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Lensless 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...

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Some 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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