{"id":322,"date":"2024-01-29T04:24:39","date_gmt":"2024-01-29T04:24:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.alanknipmeyer.phd\/?p=322"},"modified":"2024-01-29T04:28:06","modified_gmt":"2024-01-29T04:28:06","slug":"a-trip-to-bangor-and-lab-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alanknipmeyer.phd\/index.php\/2024\/01\/29\/a-trip-to-bangor-and-lab-updates\/","title":{"rendered":"A trip to Bangor and Lab Updates"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

As a first year post-graduate research student, we have to present our work. As I only started in October, my findings, whilst limited, did give me the opportunity to explain my work and also get to present in person in front of other academics, which was a great experience. All the presentations where very interesting and informative, being across Nuclear, Computing and other scientific disciplines I learned alot and also was good to meet others on my course.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Main campus<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Great views<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Dean Street campus<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Overall the trip to Bangor was well worth the time and investment to make a good presentation (thankfully presented in time!) and good to see my supervisor Bill in person. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Back home in the lab my RPI3b suffered a SD Card failure, so I had to rebuild from scratch the RPi, I used decent SanDisk cards this time as to reduce chance of failure. Getting everything back up and running was quite ok, apart from getting the detector securely mounted. This was solved by a putting a clothes peg on the board and probe \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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new helping hands + peg<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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good signal reception<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I continued to review the dfrws-2019-code<\/a> and imported it into my own git repo. I found the juypter notebook to be very useful and well commented. This lead me to research about fourier transforms, which being interested in amateur radio, had heard of, but not studied into how they actually work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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juypter notebook – traceprocessing uses fourier transform for pre-processing.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Ironically for a PhD student, my math is one of my weakest area, so finding a comprehensible and relatable learning tool for me to understand how fourier transforms work was important. I did study discrete maths for my HND, which is probably as complex as the math has got (outside of Economics for the MBA) in any of my studies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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