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 This page is a continual work in progress -- a place for us to document our past and ongoing projects.
+==== July 2024 | UCSB Summer Research Academy - Bionic Creatures ====
+The UCSB Summer Research Academy is dynamic summer experience that engages qualified high school students in project-based, directed research in STEM, Humanities, and Social Sciences fields.
+This summer, Ph.D. student Anna Alvarez in Mechanical Engineering leads a course called Bionic Creatures, where students form hypotheses about the evolutionary adaptations of organisms and build experiments to test those hypotheses.
+The Innovation Workshop and its staff have helped facilitate this course by providing extensive tools, training, and supervision for these students to safely build and conduct their experiments.
+==== Winter-Spring 2024 | Crystalmark + Sherline = Custom CNC Airjet Cutter ====
+In the Summer of 2022, the Innovation Workshop acquired a CrystalMark abrasion etcher secondhand from a dentist downtown. Over the next 1.5 year, the Workshop Wizards have made iterative modifications and additions to the tool. These include mounting the handheld tool to a Sherline CNC Z-Axis, creating a vacuum stage to hold wafers and glass slides, replacing the manual food pedal with relay controlled by g-code, and extensive feed and cut rate testing.
+This is a truly one-of-a-kind tool capable of cutting arbitrary contours in brittle substrates such as silicon and glass much faster than traditional cleanroom techniques. (add pics and/or videos of tool cutting)
+{{ :cutting_video.mp4 |}}
+==== November 2023 | Deep Sea Release Prototyping ====
+We were commissioned by Talia Evans, a postdoc in Professor Moran Raven's Lab, to help design an affordable and reliable release mechanism for deep-sea experiments. The prototype was made primarily from aluminum and acrylic, with a long-term goal of manufacturing all components in 316L Stainless Steel using the waterjet cutter. \\
+{{ projects:kraken_release.mp4 |}}
+==== Oct 2023 | Stained Glass Workshop ====
+This project was completed in collaboration with CSEP in order to provide education on STEM to high school students. The pieces for the stained glass were cut on the Wazer Waterjet. Below is an excerpt from their [[https://sst-csep.cnsi.ucsb.edu/content/courses|website]].
+What does an experimental physicist actually do? Sure, sometimes we stand and do problems on the chalkboard, but so much of experimental physics research is driven by creative thinking, problem solving, and making things with our hands. In this course we'll explore some of the most common fundamental physics research tools like lasers, magnets, detectors, and how these technologies are harnessed in building things to answer deep questions about the universe. We'll get a taste of how physics experimentalists tackle physics problems, and discover how exercising our creative skills helps us do interesting science. This course will be about physics, but it will also be about art, creative expression, and expanding our physics explorations beyond just calculations and math.  We'll spend half of each day learning about modern and relevant topics in experimental quantum and particle physics, and the other half learning how to solder by making our own stained glass art pieces.
+Supported by: NSF Quantum Foundry through Q-AMASE-i program # DMR-1906325
+Taught by: Madeleine Bow Jun Leibovitch, Ph.D. student in Physics
+{{:projects:soldering_stained_glass.jpg?direct&200|}}
+{{:projects:many_stained_glass.jpg?direct&200|}}
+==== Sept 2023 | Rat Milker ====
+Because rats develop type 2 diabetes in a similar way to humans, their developmental stages are being researched to see how this can be prevented in human babies. Research has found that the breastfeeding phase is the best time to introduce nutrients that will prevent diabetes.
+In order to make the milk-extraction portion easier, we developed a rat milker that will be more comfortable for the rats.
+{{:projects:rat_milker_tip_side_view.jpg?direct&200|}}
+{{:projects:rat_milker_tip_top_view.jpg?direct&200|}}
+{{:projects:rat_milker_assy.png?direct&200|}}
+==== Sept 2023 | Silane Chamber ====
+Silane chambers are used to deposit a thin layer of gas-phase silane to serve as a counter adhesion agent for glass or silicone substrates.
+This silane chamber was improved from the old one to have a clearer view of how much silane is left and to have clearer instructions.
+{{:projects:saline_chamber_isometric.png?direct&200|}}
+{{:projects:saline_chamber.jpg?direct&200|}}
+==== Aug 2023 | Halbach Ring====
+This Halbach Ring was created for the Physics Department. Halbach rings fixture magnets
+to create a magnetic field in one direction. It was made by CNC and waterjet cutting aluminum into rings, inserting permanent magnets, and then bolting the rings together.
+{{:finalimage.jpg?200|}}
+==== Aug 2023 | Laser Array Dust Covers====
+These prints from the F270 are prototypes of dust covers for a space laser array. These are currently being assembled in preparation for space readiness testing at NASA.
+{{:projects:dust_cover_side.jpeg?direct&200|}}
+{{:projects:dust_cover_top.jpeg?direct&200|}}
 ==== Jul 2023 | Wind Tunnel Frame ====
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 ====Cool 3D Prints====
-We use a variety of 3D printers in the Innovation Workshop and the Microfluidics Lab. These include the Ultimaker and Stratasys F270 FDM printers, Form 3 SLA printers, and an Objet 30 Polyjet printer. Here are example projects:
+We use a variety of 3D printers in our Elings 3430 lab. These include the Ultimaker and Stratasys F270 FDM printers, Form 3 SLA printers, and an Objet 30 Polyjet printer. Here are example projects:
 {{::form3_capstone_spinal_implant_1.jpg?direct&200|Cured Form 3 print of a Spinal Implant}}