• Question: what is the bespoke equipment

    Asked by 372kvnc34 to Simon on 16 Jun 2015.
    • Photo: Simon Lay

      Simon Lay answered on 16 Jun 2015:

      Hi there

      Bespoke equipment means anything specifically designed and built to do a certain task. For instance we use devices called Monochromators to change the wavelength of light. You might need to do an experiment that only reacts to a certain wavelenght of light so you need to pick this one out of the visible spectrum. You can’t just go and buy one from a normal shop so you have to either design and build it yourself or pay a specialist company to produce one for you.

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  • Photo: Norbert

    Norbert commented on :

    It is like building a machine to make only a sandwich with peanut butter, honey and bananas sprinkled with blueberries on the top. This would do this sandwich, but it would not know how to do a sandwich with cheese or ham. This is a bespoke equipment :).