Joy of doing….experimenting n exploring……

It’s awesome to work here at IUAC ( Inter University Accelerator Centre) New Delhi.

Labs are open 27X7…. all the facilities are accessible….. Have a new idea? ….work on it ….. develope ….design… get it fabricated in the workshop….test it in the laboraty….. modify…redesign….assemble …and you are done!!! Its awesome to see something virtual from your thoughts ….to a real thing on your table….

Developing new low cost science experiments……… to put it in simple words…bringing the cost of quality lab apparatus from few Laks to few hundreds………

But that’s not the only thing……It all open source……FOSS is the best thing that has happened in couple of centuries…..
#ExpEYES #FOSSASIA   #GSoC

Today we did a lot of coding work. I had already written python program to plot fetch data using sensors through ExpEYES and then plot the graphs. We re-wrote some of these programs to obtain graphs in real time. And the results are amazing.

Modified and finalized the following python programs…

• pendulum-echo.py : Program to study oscillations of a pendulum using ultrasonic sensor sfr05 (position detector) by plotting real-time graph
• coupled-pend-real-time.py : Program to plot oscillations of TWO coupled pendulums in real-time
• motion-airtrack-echo.py : Programe to plot position time graph for vehicles moving on linear air-track
• motion-compare-airtrack-echo.py : This program allows to plot position-time graph af motion of a vehicle on an air track.
  One can take multiple trials and view all the plots. this can be used to compare different aspects of motion
  like velocity, acceleration etc…
• motion-two-srfecho.py : This program allows user to use TWO motion sensors (srf-05 modules) and plot both the graphs
  in real-time. This can be used for studying collisions, conservation of momentum etc…on air track or also frictionless track.

Sill working on programs for sound experiments….. Hopefully tomorrow, it will be done…

Here is a link to my Github repo..today’s work