Demonstration Experiments and Activities Related to Microtechnology

This page is currently a brainstorm - detailed activity descriptions will come. Please add comments and ideas!

Brainstorm for New Activities

Make cakes 'lithography style'
Play with acceleration sensor and make your own sensors
Recreate the first transistor (piece of semiconductor and cut gold foil)
Lego Mindstorm programmable toys
Experiments with Optical fibers - light through running water to introduce the concept
Solar cells - make your own and compare to commercial ones
Light emitting diodes -band gaps and materials properties as fct of temperature
Webcams and their IR sensitivity
Webcams, can they be used to detect a radioactive source?
Maize starch in water for microfluidic demonstration?

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