Visitors

As I mentioned yesterday, today our lab hosted a half dozen high school students.  Throughout the day the students rotated between the three current PhD students to learn about our current work and to try their hand at some experimental physics.  Today I focused on hardware development explaining why as a scientist one would want/need to make their own instrument, followed by a brief introduction to computer animated design where the students created a number of parts to be 3d printed.  In theory we'll loaded the 3d parts into a flow cell tomorrow and image the velocity field of water moving through the device.  Unfortunately, most folks around Wellington are not back at work and I am having trouble find a back-up 3d printer as our original plans have fallen through.  In the worst case, we use some test pieces I made before the break, which are similar to what the students worked on today.