Published on the 15th September 2015 by ANSTO Staff
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| Kirrily Rule with the lego robotics model of TAIPAN. |
Together with Macquarie University and ANSTO's Discovery Centre, we have constructed a fully programmable Lego Robotics model of ourTAIPAN thermal 3-axis spectrometer. Thanks particularly to John Burfoot, who built and programmed the robot, as well as Rod Dowler and Nathan Slawitschka, from the Discovery Centre, and Scott Olsen, Kirrily Rule and Cassie Haley from the Institute.
In the coming months, local children will have the opportunity to reconstruct this particular instrument from OPAL's zoo of neutron beam instruments.
The 3-axis spectrometer was one of the first computerised automatic instruments of the 1960s, and in part it earned Bert Brockhouse the1994 Nobel Prize in Physics.