Hide and Seek

I'm not updating because my physics project has turned into an electronics project. I haven't even got the laser turned on yet - what will it be like when I'm actually attempting to trap with the evanescent field?!

New temperature and current controllers were ordered for me last week, and eventually the current controller turned up today. After various combinations of fuses, Kieran and me finally got it working. But we need the (still missing) temperature driver to check whether it does, in fact, work with the laser.

In other, much nicer, news, my IRCSET application is 98% complete. I hope to finish the last 2% off tomorrow.