Category Archives: Experimental

Centres of mass and another reason to love Photoshop

Posted on June 19, 2013 by Pete Rowley

With the experimental work on this project pretty much wrapped up I’ve been spending a large amount of time playing with spreadsheets, making frame-by-frame measurements from high-speed video files, and plotting data up as I start to draw together a … Continue reading →

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Speedbumps

Posted on April 27, 2013 by Pete Rowley

I apologise for things being a bit quiet around here recently – I can only blame my shonky time planning in failing to fit new posts in. I’ve actually started penning 3 or 4 over the last couple of months, then something … Continue reading →

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The experimentalist

Posted on January 15, 2013 by Pete Rowley

I got asked a question the other day, and it got me thinking. The question was ‘what makes a good scientist?’ The more I thought about it, the more I realised that while there are a number of key traits … Continue reading →

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Measure twice, cut once.

Posted on November 28, 2012 by Pete Rowley

My dad was a design and technology teacher. I was exposed to the arts of woodwork, construction, design and so on as a child, and – while my brother went off and became an engineer – I have to say … Continue reading →

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