(Giant Atom Manipulator for Education)
This is the program to control a G.A.M.E., a demonstrator tool for showing the working principle of a Scanning Tunnelling Microscope (STM). The scanner of a 3D printer (RepRap Berlin i3) is used as the scanner of the device. A crystalline surface made out of atoms (wooden beads) is imaged with a distance sensor attached to the STM tip. An electromagnet is also installed on the tip to manipulate a metallic ball representing an adatom (atom adsorbed on top of the crystalline surface).
I built this demonstrator for the Lange Nacht der Wissenschaften 2014 at Paul-Drude-Institut der Festkörperelektronik (Berlin), an open-house event in which the general public visits scientific facilities.
The project was presented at the Science Hack Day Berlin during the 2013 edition. A team formed by Hendrik Mohrmann, Juan García Basilio, Christoph Limbach and myself developed there the first prototype.
The result can be seen at the following youtube links:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhEG_Kb-_Iw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mbCNhBsKq9k
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DkMRIMQ8Q_I
Enjoy!
Jesús Martínez-Blanco
Simplified BSD License (see LICENSE file).