I've built a few cool things over the years. For a while I was on the Making and Science team at Google and it was my job. I helped contribute to the "physical google doodle" (where all the letters had interactive exhibits that kids could play with) and turned a shapeoko into a microscope. We used it to watch daphnia- at some point the daphnia "gave birth" and a mom who was watching said "we just saw the miracle of life!"
I built a Galton Board to demonstrate the Central Limit Theorem, I want to re-do it in all-acrylic and aluminum at some point and add an automated mechanism.
These days I build small motorized microscopes and use them to track tardigrades using an object detector. When the tardigrade moves, the detector detects the center of the tardigrade and moves it to the center of the image. This tracks tardigrades for hours at a time!
Ultimately, I'd like to make interesting nanoscale systems but the scope is as far as I've got.
I built a Galton Board to demonstrate the Central Limit Theorem, I want to re-do it in all-acrylic and aluminum at some point and add an automated mechanism.
These days I build small motorized microscopes and use them to track tardigrades using an object detector. When the tardigrade moves, the detector detects the center of the tardigrade and moves it to the center of the image. This tracks tardigrades for hours at a time!
Ultimately, I'd like to make interesting nanoscale systems but the scope is as far as I've got.