Engineering Projects

I plan on beginning several engineering projects once this business of studying is over. I will undertake two of them in cooperation with a friend who will have just completed 1st year Uni physics and chemistry (not to mention the thoroughly unhelpful studies of biology and maths {one to pure, the other not pure enough}).

Our original plan was to use them both for a science demonstration for the 2nd Clifton Hill cub scout pack, which we still intend on doing, but they have evolved far beyond that in my mind.
The first will be a set up for copper plating metal objects (many at once) and will make use of several old laptop power supplies, a fish tank and lots and lots of copper sulphate.

The second projects is, in my opinion, far more exciting. We will build a Tesla Coil. If you have seen a Tesla Coil before then you might share in my excitement, because the Tesla Coil is the most spectacular piece of electrical machinery ever to exist. While it looks unbelievably science fictiony, it works and I have seen several previously.

Later on I hope to continue my experiments with propagation of radio waves that I began during the year. Perhaps this time I'll be able to build a serviceable radio, not just an unreliable morse code machine that makes sparks.