Author: kivamccr.xyz
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Oat-a-Scope
Motivation Newtonian telescopes are the simplest of mirrored telescopes, and are the perfect project for teaching magnification, mirrors vs. lenses, and astronomy concepts. Typically these telescopes have a price floor of about $80, check out my personal build. However that isn’t realistic for a class of 20 students. So I made the Oat-a-Scope! A Newtonian…
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Solder Carry Kit V2
This kit contains everything you need to solder, but the power supply itself (and flux, and solder sucker, but hey those are optional). The kit contains the following:
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OPEN-WLS
Summary This project aims to bring optical experiment quality light sources to the student budget. Featuring a material cost of approximately $100, its incredibly competitive with industry Xenon sources and has a slew of quality of life features. The entire system revolves around the fact that HID headlights are essentially identical to expensive Xenon arc…
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Vacuum Chamber V2
The upgrades and updates are here! The previous vacuum chamber suffered quality of life and pumping issues. By implementing the following upgrades I was able to dramatically increase performance and ease of use: By implementing these changes the chamber the chamber reached: In the future I plan to switch to bolted ISO to KF adapters…
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Newtonian Reflector (V2.5)
This telescope is the second revision of my 3D printed low cost Newtonian Reflector. I took everything I learned from the previous build and the meantime to simplify the part list, lower the cost, increase modularity, increase ease of use, and make it pretty. The new features include: This means the final material list is…
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Vacuum Chamber
This was the first project I was assigned as of joining Dr. Jaesung Lee’s laboratory. As we do a lot of MEMS work, vacuum chambers are par the course. However commercial options are expensive and don’t offer the slew of features or modularity we require. So I started on a design. I have a background…
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BOBS-PWEE50 Style Sample Holder
A 3D printed sample holder for thin film spectroscopy to measure blood hemoglobin affinity in the PWEE50 style for the BOBS™ machine by Loligo Systems. A small quantity (on the order of microliters) of blood is placed between two layers of Glad Go-Between Freezer Film, this is then stretched over the sample window via the…
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Newtonian Telescope
This is one of the largest optics projects I’ve ever undertaken. I’ve had a fascination with telescopes for a long time, and as an optics student I finally have the opportunity to build rather than buy. So before we get into the process here are some specs, The base of the design is a carbon…
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Longboard Render
This is a longboard design I made for a friend, we never ended up making it a reality but it was good blender practice.
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Rover Game
This was my first Unreal Engine Project, a little rover game. I had big ambitions but the end result is a little vehicle project. You can play via the download here:
