I finished building my probe today. Nothing more than some soldering and spot welding. The challenge will be installing the probe driver.
The GT6K, as its called, can make precise motor movements inside a vacuum. From there, the langmuir probe will help us track the induced current vesus voltage and position inside the vacuum. The probe is actually fairly new. Only last year did Justin C. Feng write a manual for the installation and data gathering procedures for the GT6K.
I noticed there was an ethernet port on the probe. After talking to different students around the lab, I decided it was possible to configure the probe to be operable via the ethernet port, which would bypass 1980s equipment the size of refrigerators. One day hopefully I will be able to control the probe from home, which would especially be useful on cold mornings.
I am no longer the new kid on the block. Jake Edmand joined us this week. He is also a freshman, and I'm sure we will be working on a lot of the same projects.
Finals are coming up, but they wont be time consuming. I have an essay in existentialism, an exam in Calculus (I scored a 108% on the last midterm) and an open book and open note final in Geography.
I'll be home by Thursday.
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