Last weekend, Max Shirokawa Aalto presented his OpenQuantum project at the 2023 Hackaday Superconference. OpenQuantum’s platform is a fully open-source magneto-optical trap which can be used ...
https://www.diyphysics.com/2023/11/10/openquantums-diy-open-source-magneto-optical-atomic-trap/
I recently learned the saddening news of the passing of Robert (Bob) Iannini on April 3, 2023, just shy of his 85th birthday. Bob, an extraordinary inventor, celebrated book author, and the maste...
https://www.diyphysics.com/2023/09/26/in-memoriam-robert-bob-iannini-1938-2023/
For a detailed writeup in pdf format please CLICK HERE I’ve been planning some experiments with single-photon and ultra-low light levels. For these experiments I want the collection area to be ...
Javier De Elias Cantalapiedra from Madrid, Spain posted the YouTube video above to show his very elegant experiment in which he measured Planck’s constant using photons from a distant star. A...
I have kept on making space in my lab for new projects, and came across 3 new-old-stock Marx generator modules that were made for the Fexitron and Febetron flash X-ray sources and electron accele...
https://www.diyphysics.com/2021/03/09/febetron-fexitron-marx-bank-module/
Many years ago I corresponded with Wade G Holcomb (W1GHU, SK 2009) about his home-brew NMR spectrometer and MRI experiments. Going through my files I found the documents that he had sent me bac...
https://www.diyphysics.com/2019/07/23/wade-holcombs-w1ghu-sk-try-nmr-with-your-old-cw-rig/
NOTE: A detailed critique with high-resolution figures is available in pdf format at: Prutchi Critique of Alzofon Gravity Control Experiments Lately, most of my ham radio activity has been in t...
https://www.diyphysics.com/2019/07/16/f-alzofons-1994-experiments-do-not-prove-his-model-of-gravity/
I was cleaning my desk today, and came across a folder containing correspondence about a legal threat that I received a few years ago from someone accusing me of copyright infringement. The accus...
https://www.diyphysics.com/2019/07/13/published-data-are-not-protected-by-copyright/
Jason Meyers and I won 4th place in The Hackaday Prize 2018 for our project “EmotiGlass”. A complete whitepaper is available at: EmotiGlass – v4.1 PUBLISHED –
https://www.diyphysics.com/2018/11/05/emotiglass-takes-4th-prize-in-2018-hackaday-prize/
Jason Meyers and I submitted our project “EmotiGlass” as our entry in The Hackaday Prize 2018. All augmented reality devices so far provide an interactive experience of the real-world enviro...
https://www.diyphysics.com/2018/10/21/ot-emotiglass-project-submitted-for-the-hackaday-prize-2018/