News

It’s been an intense week for the CamBike Team, with a presentation at the Department and distribution of more sensors to excited volunteers. Read on to learn more!Distribution: preliminary data and call for actionThe team is happy to present some preliminary data from our first volunteers! There will be 40 devices ready to give out starting from n…

Another week was filled with preparations for the children’s workshop that we hosted yesterday at the Centre for Computing History (http://www.computinghistory.org.uk), and with chasing the last missing components. We are also preparing for the presentation of our first results on Friday in the Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology a…

Thank you to everyone who attended the Makeathon at Cambridge Makespace on 3 August 2018.  There were lots of interesting discussions and sketches of new ideas, and by the end of the day even a real-life induction-charging system.Graduating from tape to cable tie: designing mounting systemsBefore the Makeathon, the team were using tape to attach th…

The Sensor CDT MRes students will be giving a final presentation of their fabulous Team Challenge at 10.30am on 17 August 2018 in Lecture Theatre 1, Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology (Philippa Fawcett Drive, Cambridge CB3 0AS).  Everyone is welcome to attend so why not come along and see just what we've been doing over the last f…

Our MRes students were recently interviewed by That's Cambridge TV.  Take a look at the interview on YouTube.We are working on the CamBike Makeathon.  For more information on the goal of the Makeathon see http://cambikesensor.net/makeathon.html.  If's fun and free to sign up.  What you are waiting for?This week, the CamBike Team has kept busy both …

2017 student cohort successfully concludes team challengeThe 2017 student cohort has presented the outcomes from this year's team challenge: a quantitative sensor for measuring arsenic concentration in drinking water.   The team of 13 students combined synthetic biology, engineering and chemistry to demonstrate an easy to use sensor which can provi…

The Sensor CDT Team Challenge is well underway and has gone live on the radio.  Check out http://cambridge105.co.uk/drive-02-07-2018/ to hear all about what we're doing. 

Congratulation to Johanna Kölbel, Sensor CDT MRes student, on the publication of her first paper with the Terahertz Applications Group. Paper entitled: "Predicting the Structures and Associated Phase Transitions Mechanisms in Disordered Crystals via a Combination of Experimental and Theoretical Methods", authored by Michael T Ruggiero,  Johanna Kö…

A Creativity Sandpit took place on 15-17 May 2018 at Easthamstead Park near Bracknell in a big old mansion and about 30 brilliant minds working together. It was organised by the High Performance Embedded and Distributed Systems (HiPEDS) CDT at Imperial College. In addition to HiPEDS and Sensor CDT, the Warwick Urban Science CDT joined in as well.F…

Farah Alimagham, a Sensor CDT talented student, has been awarded a collaborative grant to work with the CDT in Metamaterials (Engineering at the University of Exeter).The successful proposal has been brought together by teams from Physical Chemistry at the University of Cambridge and Engineering at the University of Exeter.They were awarded £15,000…

Sensor CDT student Oliver Vanderpoorten has accomplished yet another milestone in his excellent work. He received the second year poster prize for his research on "Two-photon lithography for nanofluidic device fabrication". His research was presented during the CEB Graduate Conference, which took place on Wednesday the 25th and Thursday the 26th …

Sensor CDT student, Tiesheng Wang (王铁胜), found a simple way to transform metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) to carbon-base structures with ordered multilevel hierarchy, termed as “nano-diatom” (named for the morphological similarities with the naturally existing diatomaceous species). The metamorphosis is enabled by adding salts (metal-containing comp…

The Sensor CDT took part in three events at the Cambridge Science Festival 2018, demonstrating its wide range of research and teaching how to build an electronic sensor using readily available open source hardware. Students also designed and distributed a booklet with science experiments for children.Sensor ResearchThis year's Science Festival topi…

SynBio SRI Join us on Saturday 5 May for Science Makers: 3D Printing for Science! This will also be a great opportunity to share ideas and find collaborators for Biomaker Challenge 20183D printing opens up a world of custom science instrumentation that can be instantly shared and fabricated around the world. It has been used to build precision mic…

Applications now open for the 2018 Biomaker Challenge! Whether you're a previous participant interested in continuing your project or curious to get involved for the first time, we're keen to hear from you! BIOMAKER.ORG   2018Electronics : 3dPrint : Sensors :Instrumentation : BiologyApply now for 2018 Biomaker Challenge!Learn more and apply …