For 6.013 at MIT (Electromagnetics and Applications,) my team and I were challenged to use a rudimentary RADAR based around an Arduino for some cool purpose that demonstrated our understanding of electromagnetics. We decided to turn it into a simple network analyzer so that we could identify two different tags. The tags were acrylic sheets with strips of aluminum acting as waveguides / resonant cavities. The tags were almost identical, differing only in aluminum strip length.
For 8.223 (Classical Mechanics II,) my good friend Chris Galea and I analyzed the dynamics of a Kapitza pendulum. We then constructed one out of cardboard and a subwoofer. It was originally going to be made of aluminum, but last minute we ran into challenges with shaking a heavy metal bar up and down fast enough to achieve stability for the inverted double pendulum.
Bunch of Electricals | Matthew Ian Burns
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