2017 – Michele Lizzit

Projects

10€ closed loop control 3D printer from old inkjet printers

Inkjet printers are incredibly cheap and most printers do not last more that a few years before the inkjet nozzle breaks or the paper loading mechanism starts to fail; as a consequence lots of broken inkjet printers can be easily obtained in junkyards or from friends. Each inkjet printer has […]

Other

Stage at LNF: my experience at INSPYRE 2017

Last week I had the opportunity to go to Frascati and attend INSPYRE, the INternational School on modern PhYsics and REsearch. It has been a week full of lectures and talks about physics. Every school could send a maximum of 2 students, my school hold a selection, I applied and […]

Particle accelerator

A particle accelerator in my basement!

I have recently built a little particle accelerator, which is not as complicated as it seems. My purpose was to accelerate electrons and collide them with a dense target in order to produce bremsstrahlung radiation. This is usually done using a heated filament and a positively charged metal plate in […]

Energy monitor

Solar panel data on a telephone

I connected a CP-6941 Cisco phone with the house’s Asterisk running on the UDOO, and I set the idle page to a custom page on my Energy Monitor so that now, after 5 minutes of inactivity, the phone displays the power produced by solar panels and the amount of power […]

Other

Entropy – a simple Android game

Entropy is a simple Android game I have developed during a spare weekend. The goal is to jump as many blocks as possible. This game is based on another game I had developed for school, as my end-term Java project. I have developed the game using OpenGL ES, and it is […]