Complicated enough for you? Take on the challenge of building your own particle accelerator!

The Personal Particle Accelerator is a high-school science project gone crazy, and now a successful Kickstarter campaign for science enthusiasts worldwide. It’s a working model particle accelerator, it spins a ball bearing around an enclosed tube. Read the backstory to find out how it grew from a crazy idea to entertainment for science fans.

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Instructions for building the kit

User manual

PPA Design

Experiments (coming soon)

Open Source acknowledgements