Today’s blog celebrates others’ particle accelerators, through a series of youtube videos. To get us started, let’s start with the real deal particle accelerators: overview of the LHC real homemade particle accelerator Moving onto broadly similar hobbyist designs, Jo and I built our first particle accelerator without seeing these: Very basic accelerator Basic circular […]
An IRPS is required to provide ball position timings, so that the Arduino can precisely calculate the timing of a high power pulse to the electromagnet. The general concept of a photogate is that infrared light shines from a LED (transmitter) to a Phototransistor (receiver) all the time, except when the ball is travelling through and […]
Hi all, this is the first in a series of blogs outlining the design and operation of the Personal Particle Accelerator. Don’t forget to read the back-story. There’s also a list of experiments that are possible with the PPA too. Looking forward to your questions and comments! ** Don’t forget to express your interest in […]