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Brewster’s angle

ErrantWritings

cBAM universally communicated

A while back XKCD (if you haven’t heard of XKCD and you are using the internet then I can only assume you have previously only been browsing underarock.com) ran a comic on using the 1000 most common words to explain things. It was so good that a whole host of Read more…

By Matthew (@MCeeP), 10 years8 May 2013 ago
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Playing with raspberries

One key feature of the xBAM project I’m working on is cost. Normal BAMs retail for about £100k and I want to make a BAM for just £8k. In the Lego BAM, I used the Mindstorms package as a control system, but this is wholly unsuitable as it is expensive, Read more…

By Matthew (@MCeeP), 10 years3 April 2013 ago
Lego BAM
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Brewster angle Lego microscope

Brewster’s angle is the angle at which light of a certain polarisation won’t reflect off a surface. The resulting reflection will then be made up of only light from a single polarisation (p-polarised). This little optical quirk is how polarised lenses remove lots of scattered reflections in photographs and why Read more…

By Matthew (@MCeeP), 10 years1 October 2012 ago
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