Peter Reintjes

I'm the Exhibits Engineer at the Museum of Life and Science in Durham, North Carolina. My interests include Electronics, Music, Computer Vision, and Molecular Biology -- specifically, directed evolution and building lab equipment from discards. I was on the Board of the Scrap Exchange for nearly 10 years. I've written a play about Kurt Goedel and a Suite inspired by the laying of the Atlantic cable. I like to build Theremins because they illustrate how adding logarithms is equivalent to multiplication and the usefulness of the trigonometric identity 2sin(a)*sin(b) = cos(a-b) + cos(a+b) -- e.g. the heterodyning that makes radio possible.