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"Nuts and bolts":
interactive exibits
Exhibit
development & fabrication
Designs
& performance specifications
Discovery
Disks: mobile mini-interactives
'Beam Cam' projecting video microscope
Underwater
Street Discovery Centre
Moscow
Planetarium
Sellafield
Visitor Centre
'Alternative
energy'
Earth
Science
Fixed
Discovery Disks, Glasgow
Air-table,
telescope, moon-phases
Astronomy
exhibits for Valencia
Biometrics
Magnetic
field exhibit for CERN, Geneva
Tabletop
Discovery Disks: magnetism
Tabletop
Discovery Disks: Light
More
Light interactives
"Academic"
interactives: The Energy Enzyme
"Academic
interactives": Electron beams
"Academic
interactives": Mantle geology
Working
canal-lock model
Virtual
exhibit: Ich bin einmalig
Chemistry
interactives: Chirality
Video
microscopes: Melting crystal
Push-button
quiz: Breath of life
Environmental
& biological
Cookbook
outlines of my 1992 "classical" Great Explorations interactives
Talk to me!
UK phone/fax
+44 (0) 1663 743794
Email ian@interactives.co.uk
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Video
microscopes
Melting
crystal
The three rocker-switches are labelled Focus, Zoom and
Heat. A stream of hot or cool air melts or recrystallises the sample
on the slide. The beautiful, shifting birefringence colours of the crystals
are due to polarising filters above and below the sample.
The working-parts of this exhibit were obtained from Micrarium Enterprises,
the video microscope specialists.
The mechanism is installed in cabinet-work of my own construction, with
a moveable stage that enables users to explore the crystals
on a single specimen, rather than just press a button to select fixed
views of different specimens.
(It is important to facilitate exploration wherever possible.)
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