• Question: What is the best thing you have ever made

    Asked by S.B123 to Stephen, Sita, Rory, Hannah, Brian, Alison on 4 Mar 2019.
    • Photo: Rory Scarrott

      Rory Scarrott answered on 4 Mar 2019:

      Banana bread with walnuts, cocoa flakes and blackberries…. Fresh from the oven with butter and honey… it was incredible.

    • Photo: Sita Karki

      Sita Karki answered on 4 Mar 2019:

      I made a small robot using Raspberry Pi. These are the tiny computers.

    • Photo: Alison Dufresne

      Alison Dufresne answered on 4 Mar 2019:

      A propulsion system that had never been built before. We have a 3D printed regeneratively cooled engine which uses a fuel-oxidiser combination and ignition system that many many academics told us “could never work”. We’ve tested it a bunch of times and it turns out, they were wrong! Don’t believe everything professors tell you! Build and it test for yourself!
      That and my friend and I once build an epic blanket fort. 🙂

    • Photo: Hannah Currivan

      Hannah Currivan answered on 4 Mar 2019:

      I-LOFAR (Irish Low Frequency Array) Radio Telescope (http://lofar.ie/) in Birr Castle, Birr, Co. Offaly. During the summer of 2017 over a period of 10 weeks a group of students, including myself constructed Ireland’s first radio telescope. I also got the amazing opportunity to have operated I-LOFAR for my Bachelor’s of Science thesis, where I observed a supernova remanent (Cas A) which is 11,000 light years away, Radio Galaxy (Cygnus A) which is 3200 light years away, and a Black Hole (Cygnus X-3) which is 3200 light years away!!!!! 🙂 🙂 🙂
      Also had the opportunity to attend the European Space Agency in Belgium for Spacecraft Operations training!!!!!
      Currently I am building a Tupper Sat which is like a lunchbox which contains an experiment which we will launch on a weather balloon in late April!!!! 🙂 🙂 🙂

    • Photo: Stephen O'Connor

      Stephen O'Connor answered on 8 Mar 2019:

      Honestly, probably a tree house with my friends when I was younger – it was my first construction job and it lasted REALLY well! We also made a swing ladder for it 🙂

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