3D-printed model of IBM Q System One

OpenSCAD model of a 1cm to 1foot scale model of the IBM Q System One Quantum Computer.

Set one of the control variables to true and all the others to false at the top of the model file to render each component in turn.

black filament

• base
• base_lid
• back_box * print with raft *
• top_box
• top_box_lid (inverted)
• lid (inverted)
• lid_lower (inverted)
• lid plinth (inverted for smoothness)

white filament

• reflector in white (inverted)
• reflector_strip in white

translucent filament

• diffuser in clear filament (inverted)

Cryostat needs to be a 25mm x 44mm silver tube (I used chrome-plated wardrobe rail)

Glass walls in 1mm acrylic (2 of each size)
front and back: 92 x 81 mm
left and right: 85 x 81 mm

The top box has a row of 8 neopixels (144 leds/metre) inside, with a Wemos ESP-8266 Arduino (in the back box) controlling it via MQTT over WiFi. There's a cut-out for a micro-USB cable to come out through the back of the base.

For information about how to connect a Wemos with Neopixels using MQTT, see @DrLucyRogers' excellent article here: Connect your IoT "Thing" to the Cloud

This is controlled by a node-red flow which controls the colours.

First it goes into a cool blue mode

Then we run a Qiskit python script which connects to the real quantum computer (though the simulator takes much less time in the batch queue!), does a quantum coin flip, then returns an answer.

When we get the answer, we display a "superposed" state on the lights (red on one side and green on the other side, with a nice merge in the middle), pause for dramatic effect, then turn all red or all green, depending on whether it was heads or tails.