checking a TV remote controller
visitors this year: 149 An infrared remote control unit sends messages, using infrared ‘light’ to recorders and televisions. Point a remote controller at a light sensor and it may be able to pick up the...
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preparing for science year (2001)
visitors this year: 76 Fast forward to the future in Science Year Feature by Roger Frost for The Guardian (2001) Aiming for a world-record, Science Year kicked off on Friday 7th Sept as pupils...
video and data analysis tool – Coach Studio
visitors this year: 116 Update – Coach 7 was available in 2018. In 2008 I wrote: Coach 6 Studio provides a learning environment where you or students can work with models or create models...
software that works with most data-loggers: ‘Insight’
visitors this year: 85 Here is some excellent software that can collect and analyse data and it now works with a huge number of different brands. Called Insight and known to thousands of science...
about the ‘sid’ file format
visitors this year: 167 Q. What is SID? A. It’s a standard file format that every data logging manufacturer is encouraged to support. The results of data logging experiments can be better shared in...
data logging software choices
visitors this year: 265 The sensors and equipment you buy for school requires software made for it. There IS a generic program, called Insight (below). which works with lots of different manufacturer’s kit. It...
data & datafiles you can download to analyse
visitors this year: 79 Real results are often messy, but these all offer good material for discussion. This is the page from which you can download the results of other people’s experiments using sensors....
scientist 67: the guitarist – guitar types & quality (2014)
visitors this year: 1,226 With many different types of guitars, we find out how much more is involved in the sound we get from various models, and whether or not this impacts on the...
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scientist 60: the astronomer – Paul Fellows explains why we do astronomy (2014)
visitors this year: 452 What is about the study of the stars that captivates so many? Paul Fellows of the Cambridge Astronomical Association fills us in and updates us on news. Hear about dark matter,...
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scientist 57: the gastroenterologist – Stephen Middleton Smart pill for IBS (2013)
visitors this year: 381 An electronic medical procedure offers an innovative way for doctors to find out what’s going on inside the intestine. The ‘SmartPill’ is a tablet-sized device with sensors to take measurements...
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scientist 56: the motor vehicle development manager – Nissan LEAF electric car (2014)
visitors this year: 378 The technology behind the world’s best selling electric vehicle. Called the Nissan LEAF, it’s a car to drive across town with the thought that you’re not polluting, or adding to the traffic...
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scientist 33: the entrepreneur – Felix Baumgartner’s skyjump (2012)
visitors this year: 327 Our guest Anmol Sood of Hildago was on the team that monitored Felix Baumgartner health as he jumped from the edge of space and reached a speed of over 800...
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scientist 29: the eco-home builder – solar panels by Polysolar (2013)
visitors this year: 396 Pete McKeown, director of Cernunnos Homes and Hamish Watson, director of Polysolar tell Chris Creese about their special solar panels and offer some smart ideas for using solar energy. Follow-up link:...
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scientist 25: the computer scientist – big aims for the tiny Raspberry Pi computer (2012)
visitors this year: 383 Cambridge University’s Dr Rob Mullins and Alex Bradbury, developed the inexpensive Raspberry Pi computer to bump start computing, much like the Acorn BBC Micro did thirty years ago. Follow-up link:...
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scientist 23: the engineer – Bloodhound the fastest car on earth (2012)
visitors this year: 264 Roger Frost finds out about Bloodhound, an engineering initiative for students to build the world’s fastest car. He speaks with Ian Galloway, Bloodhound’s Education Professional Development Director about the bid...
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scientist 18: the data logger company – agriculture (2012)
visitors this year: 350 Roger Frost meets Tony Peloe from Cambridge firm, Delta-T, who supply plant and environment monitoring equipment to plant growers and researchers. Follow-up link: Delta-T www.delta-t.co.uk Tagged biology, Nicola Terry, physics,...
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scientist 14: the home insulation advisor – heat loss from houses (2012)
visitors this year: 410 Nicola Terry hitches a ride on the Heatseekers vehicle in Cambridge as speaks with Dawn Morley. Dawn explains how their infra red camera is able to see where a house...
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scientist 13: the architect – Cambridge eco-homes (2012)
visitors this year: 433 Roger Frost visits a super-insulated city home that minimises its use of energy and has a garden for insulation on the roof. He talks to architect Jeremy Ashworth about the...
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scientist 12: the materials scientist – properties of materials (2012)
visitors this year: 443 Stuart Dye from Granta Design in Cambridge explains how the company help engineers choose materials to make a product. Tagged engineering, chemistry, materials, choosing, physics, Granta Design, Cambridge, Nicola Terry, Stuart Dye...
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scientist 11: the building scientist – home energy use (2012)
visitors this year: 381 Science Show reporter Nicola Terry asked a local environmental scientist Dr Ray Galvin to tell us about houses and heat loss. He offers a scientific look at ways to reduce...
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scientist 10: the entrepreneur – purifying water from fracking shale (2012)
visitors this year: 346 Roger Frost speaks with Matt Bruff of Altela Inc, a Denver company making technology that turns the most polluted water useful again. The company licence large-scale water recycling plants that...
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scientist 04: the technical specialist – mobile phone signal reception (2012)
visitors this year: 440 Chris Cox of IPACCESS in Cambourne explains to Roger Frost how mobile phones talk to radio masts; how signals decrease inside buildings and how femtocells (aka ‘small cells’) can improve a weak...
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scientist 03: the inventor – making an IR camera for art museums (2012)
visitors this year: 304 When the news told of the discovery of ‘another’ Mona Lisa, Roger Frost visited local inventor Lawrence Robinson of OPUS Instruments. He learned about the OSIRIS infra-red camera which had...
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Choosing a guitar – 105science
visitors this year: 92 With many different types of guitars, we find out how much more is involved in the sound we get from various models, and whether or not this impacts on the...
Civil Engineering with Professor Robert Mair – 105science
visitors this year: 100 Asking someone to send you an “engineer” will conjure up all sorts of people who build and fix things. But today’s show is about civil engineers. Professor Robert Mair of...
Aerodynamics – Professor Holger Babinsky – 105science
visitors this year: 242 This week we find out about aerodynamics and what it involves. We meet Professor Holger Babinsky at Cambridge University Engineering Department. He talks about wind tunnels and the need for bumps on aeroplane...
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The Nissan LEAF electricity powered car – 105science
visitors this year: 50 About the technology behind the world’s best selling electric vehicle. Called the Nissan LEAF, it’s a car to drive across town with the thought that you’re not pumping out pollution, or adding...
SmartPill comes to Cambridge and we play the Science Fact and Fiction quiz – 105science
visitors this year: 84 A new pill can diagnose you from the inside out. A new medical procedure offers an innovative way for doctors to find out what’s going on inside the intestine. The ‘SmartPill’...
