Monthly Archives: January 2011

Arduino: Once More, with Photo Import

Posted on January 19, 2011 by engineerzero

I made this drawing by first getting a picture of the Uno (from the Arduino site) and then modifying the image of the circuit board so that only the words appear. This made it a lot easier to accurately lay … Continue reading →

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Arduino in Sketchup (in Progress II)

Posted on January 18, 2011 by engineerzero

Here’s a Youtube video on the next issue of Make Magazine. Note the sketchup-like illustration at :17. I made a screen capture of the Arduino illustration in the video and compared it to an export image from my Arduino drawing, … Continue reading →

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The One TEU Per Family Initiative

Posted on January 17, 2011 by engineerzero

In the design shown, I’ve added a fancy door and window to a TEU (Twenty-foot Equivalent Unit) shipping container just for the fun of it. Otherwise, I’m serious about this concept. Each of the six solar panels provides 80 watts … Continue reading →

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Paracetamol single-double bond representation

Posted on January 16, 2011 by engineerzero

Well, that title is a mouthful. The basic issue however is as shown in the wikipedia entry for paracetamol: Now here’s my guess as to what’s going on here: As indicated by the dotted circle, the benzene ring alternates between … Continue reading →

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Arduino on Battery Power

Posted on January 15, 2011 by engineerzero

It seemed a straight-forward proposition last night when my nephew and I were wondering how to run the Arduino without being connected to the laptop. I must confess there was a point in our internet search where I wondered whether … Continue reading →

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Arduino Park Under the Magnifying Glass

Posted on January 14, 2011 by engineerzero

Lots of little details added. Sang is there because he will be the tour guide when the park opens. Which is still about a week away. As I look at this thing, I wonder. That 103 chip can’t have all … Continue reading →

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Acetaminophen (Paracetamol) in sketchup

Posted on January 14, 2011 by engineerzero

I saw that a molecule was trending on Yahoo, and how often does that happen? So I thought, “Here’s a challenge.” I went over to the wikipedia entry on paracetamol (aka acetaminophen) and copied the model into ball and stick … Continue reading →

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Arduino in Sketchup: Modulate my pulse widths, those are tildes!

Posted on January 13, 2011 by engineerzero

Since the last time I posted my work on the Arduino Uno in Sketchup Project, I have started using a magnifying glass. Lo, the minuses in front of the digital pinout numbers turned out to be tildes (ie, ‘~’ –which, … Continue reading →

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Thymine Sketchup model uploaded to Google 3D Warehouse

Posted on January 12, 2011 by engineerzero

This completes the uploading of the DNA nucleobase models to Warehouse. To see it, all you have to do is go to Google 3D Warehouse and enter Thymine. I realize that Google primarily intends the Sketchup/Warehouse paradigm for architectural modeling, … Continue reading →

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Arduino Uno in Sketchup (in progress)

Posted on January 11, 2011 by engineerzero

Based on the Arduino Duemilanova models I found in Google 3D Warehouse. It seems that one Arduino model is based upon another in the Warehouse in an evolutionary growth, so it’s hard to give credit for the original design. Suffice … Continue reading →

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