For the past 6 months, I've been working on designing and building a calibration chamber at my current job with the UC Berkeley Space Sciences Lab. The chamber itself is currently in production and should be shipped to us within a couple of weeks. The support structure and the Helmholtz coil mechanism, however, is all manufactured. I hope to commence assembly pretty soon, so I can finally get my hands dirty. Below are a couple of screenshots of the finalized SolidWorks model.
The support structure was built out of
80/20, which is very convenient and sturdy for these kinds of projects. The Helmholtz coils were manufactured off site, but will be welded to the support tabs in house. This is one of the most fulfilling parts of working on an engineering project: designing everything as a 3D model and actually seeing it come to life.
