Demonstration Experiments and Activities Related to Microtechnology

See also the Open source handbook on Microtechnology.

This page is currently a brainstorm - detailed activity descriptions will come. Please add comments and ideas!

Brainstorm for New Activities

• Make cakes 'lithography style'
• Play with acceleration sensor and make your own sensors
• Recreate the first transistor (piece of semiconductor and cut gold foil)
• Lego Mindstorm programmable toys
• Experiments with Optical fibers - light through running water to introduce the concept
• Solar cells - make your own and compare to commercial ones
• Light emitting diodes -band gaps and materials properties as fct of temperature
• Webcams and their IR sensitivity
• Webcams, can they be used to detect a radioactive source?
• Maize starch in water for microfluidic demonstration?