Learning through experimentation. I love Core-Electronics, helps they’re only a 10 minute drive away! have put together a web site for projects that I am working on. Although things like Muon Flux is not useful in everyday life the idea is that experimentation makes you learn - in this case everything from Arduino and Python scripting to web design and implementation and of course about how things work. Take a look
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Really impressive work on the Muon detector. I checked out the site and the way you’ve integrated the Python scripting for data visualization is a nice touch. Have you considered doing a more detailed build-log or guide here on the Core forums for one of the specific modules? I’m sure a lot of people would love to see how you handled the hardware side of the physics experiments.
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That’s awesome! I love the idea of learning through experimentation, projects like this are a great way to really understand how things work. It’s cool that you’re combining Arduino, Python, and web design all in one. I’ll definitely check out your site!
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Hi Brittany, thanks for the feedback. As you can imagine documentation is very time consuming (along with keeping a website up and running + developing the projects themselves) and documentation isn’t one of my strengths. However, what I have done is setup a Github repository, with a link off my website, and I have started uploading files - at the moment I am trying to get the Bell’s inequality part up to date and then I’ll move to the muon detector.
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Hi Olivia, thanks for the comments - you hit the nail on the head when you said its the way to really understand how things work when you build whatever yourself. Web design has been my biggest challenge since last time I tried it I was manually typing html code…..but I’m pretty pleased with what has turned out and one of the biggest eye openers has been security and the extent to which every website is now bombarded with bots and crawlers looking for a way in, but I love a challenge 
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Thank you, I really appreciate that. You’re absolutely right: building things yourself is still the best way to truly understand how they work. Web design has changed a lot since the days of hand-coding HTML, and it’s great to hear you’ve embraced it so well. The security side is definitely an eye-opener, but it sounds like you’re taking it on with exactly the right mindset.
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Hi all,
Thought you maybe interested in an upgrade experiment I ran - I purchased a core-electronics Peltier module, SKU: ADA1335, for an experiment I have been putting together. However, I found that I needed the module to get down to around -15 deg C. That required an upgrade to the module itself so for $24 I purchased a TEC2-19006 module and replaced the existing one. In the video from you guys you show frost on the clamp plate with the old Peltier but I can tell you with the replacement it got down to -15 deg C and that was a 45 deg drop from the ambient temperature. Happy to say the heat sink and fan were probably over engineered for the original module and even at -15 deg the heat sink doesn’t get very hot at all (in fact I can still put my hand on it). I have attached a chart that logged the temperature drop and RH.
The power supply is 12V @ 6A and the sensor was attached to the plate with a small blob of thermal paste.
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Hey there, @robert139886,
Thanks for sharing the product test. It’s always great to see people sharing good hard data on products for the community’s benefit.
