So what does a physics Ph.D student do during a year off?

[silverpig]

Pretty nerd-tastic if you ask me

 

[maziwanka]

Originally posted by: silverpig
Pretty nerd-tastic if you ask me

hahaha. that's pretty cool

 

[Tiamat]

so thats why it takes them so long to get their ph.D degrees compared to other programs!

 

[MyThirdEye]

Very cool! :thumbsup:

 

[Fenixgoon]

that's pretty cool!

 

[flawlssdistortn]

So he knows how to hook up an accelerometer and some LEDs. Big deal.

Lol, I will admit that it's kinda cool looking though.

 

[IronWing]

The dance floor might get more interesting very shortly.

 

[JohnCU]

that's pretty cool until you realize how easily that can be done. but still neat.

 

[Jeff7]

A physicist, eh? So why doesn't the "ball" turn blue and get shorter in the direction of travel when it's moving, huh? Damn fool people think they're too good for relativity.

 

[JohnCU]

Originally posted by: Jeff7
A physicist, eh? So why doesn't the "ball" turn blue and get shorter in the direction of travel when it's moving, huh? Damn fool people think they're too good for relativity.

:thumbsup:

 

[jpeyton]

I would have thought they prefer getting laid on their year off.

Then again, we are talking about physics PhD students.

 

[TehMac]

Originally posted by: jpeyton
I would have thought they prefer getting laid on their year off.

Then again, we are talking about physics PhD students.

Not everyone's mind has degenerated into cum, jepyton.

 

[BrownTown]

Originally posted by: JohnCU
that's pretty cool until you realize how easily that can be done. but still neat.

yeah, I mean I feel bad going here and raining on some dudes parade, but really for a person who graduated with an EE degree for any decent college this would be a pretty simple thing to make, order up some parts on DigiKey stick them together in a breadboard (dude didn't even have a custom PCB). The only difficult them is doing the modeling for the ball in code, but if the dude is smart he just used a compiler to translate C code into assembly for the microcontroller. I'm not gonna say its not cool, but its a weekends worth of work to design and another weekends worth of work to assemble, bot exactly a year long project.

EDIT: I mean like here is a circuit for me senior project, looks sorta complicated at first, but I did the whole schematic one night and then did this layout the next day.

 

[silverpig]

Originally posted by: BrownTown

Originally posted by: JohnCU
that's pretty cool until you realize how easily that can be done. but still neat.

yeah, I mean I feel bad going here and raining on some dudes parade, but really for a person who graduated with an EE degree for any decent college this would be a pretty simple thing to make, order up some parts on DigiKey stick them together in a breadboard (dude didn't even have a custom PCB). The only difficult them is doing the modeling for the ball in code, but if the dude is smart he just used a compiler to translate C code into assembly for the microcontroller. I'm not gonna say its not cool, but its a weekends worth of work to design and another weekends worth of work to assemble, bot exactly a year long project.

EDIT: I mean like here is a circuit for me senior project, looks sorta complicated at first, but I did the whole schematic one night and then did this layout the next day.

He didn't spend the entire year on it. He did some travelling, relaxing, a lot of nothing, and has only been off for 4 months thus far...

 

[BrownTown]

Originally posted by: silverpig
He didn't spend the entire year on it. He did some travelling, relaxing, a lot of nothing, and has only been off for 4 months thus far...

Yeah, I know, it was just the thread title might seem to imply it and I was telling people that wasn't the case.

 

[Epic Fail]

but can you play the wii with it?

 

[covert24]

thats pretty crazy actually. but yea they do have WAYYYYY too much time on there hands....

 

[EGGO]

His last word in that video is exactly how I said it.