Author Archives: mechatronicsguy

Unintentionally I’m going to continue my tradition of making projects involving rulers. I saw this picture online: https://imgur.com/t/aiko/mu96ohu and I thought it was too cute a technique not to try out for myself. I did a couple of minutes sketching in … Continue reading →

Here’s a quick project to make it easier to draw examples of interference patterns and wave behaviour. I call it Huygens’ Ruler: It’s based on the idea of Huygens’ principle, the idea that every point on a wavefront becomes the source … Continue reading →

Here’s something I was planning to make ages ago, as part of the Bloch Sphere project, but it slipped my mind. It’s a visual demonstration of how the Born Rule, which describes how complex ‘probability amplitudes’ are related to probability. … Continue reading →

Here’s something I came up with today to make it easier to organise sewing thread. The problem is how to organise about four or five tubs worth of these: As an experiment, here’s what the exact same collection would look … Continue reading →

(With sincere apologies to both Sir William Bragg, and also Sir William Bragg. I’d have loved to meet you both, and also see your famous bubble raft demo in person!) At a late stage in the spiral double slit project, … Continue reading →

Here’s a brief F.A.Q. for things I’ve been asked about the spiral & the double slit experiment. Q: First off, what the actual directions of the plot correspond to? Good question.  In the original 2D graph, one axis was distance … Continue reading →

Here’s the process for making the wire & bead Galton boards. First up, cutting the wire to length. I screwed two wood screws right into the bench, then wrapped the wire back and forth till I had a bundle of … Continue reading →

I’ve played with the Galton Board before a couple of times. It’s a lovely demonstration of the ‘Central Limit Theorem’ in statistics. That is, it shows in a really intuitive way how repeated binomial events (like coin flips) average out … Continue reading →