In 2024 got curious about 3D printers freely availables to students at Chapman's design/create/innovate lab and decided to implement Dirac three polarizers experiment into an easy to interact with 3D printed educational tool.
I presented this design to Chapman's engineering competition, Make-A-Thon, and received a prize obtaining second place. Following this success I got curious about whether I could take this design further and applied for a startup incubator summer course at Chapman's Leatherby center for entrepreneurship where I learned the ropes of setting up a start-up.
Dirac three polarizers experiment is one of the most intuitive and simplest demonstration of a quantum phenomenon and therefore has the potential to get children curious about the otherwise difficult to grasp field of quantum physics. Democratizing science is important given the growing need for STEM workforce and in particular here, the increasing relevance of quantum physics with the advent of quantum computing.
The design can be freely downloaded and used here.