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Author Archives: engineerzero
Football on the Moon
My nephew was interested in the possibility of lunar basketball, but since this is the weekend of the Big Game (non-TM), I decided to go with lunar (American) football instead. The simple part, of course, is to put it under … Continue reading
Amino acid progression
This is something that I’ve wanted to do for a while, and it will obviously take a lot more work. The idea is that amino acids show a progression in complexity, and I’d like to put together a slide show … Continue reading
Engineer’s Dreams
Engineer’s Dreams: Great projects that could come true, by Willy Ley (1954). Here is a book that I found at Half Price Books that has been out of print for decades. Not only is it over fifty years old, it … Continue reading
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Tagged chunnel, civil engineering, Engineer's dreams, megaprojects, Peloponnese, solar power, tidal power, wind power
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Tapping into an RC Circuit
The Neph came over and we probed the RC circuit with the analog multimeter that I purchased from Radio Shack. I was astonished to find that the voltage on the high side of the push button wasn’t even a single … Continue reading
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Tagged arduino, diy, electronics, electronics hobby, rc control, robot, robotics
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Zerobot Chronicles: Remote Control Pad
Here are photos of a RC toy vehicle’s remote control pad circuitry exposed. I reversed the back side so that the points would correlate with the components on the front. The chip identifier number under the sticker is unreadable, which … Continue reading
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Password Key Chain
Tired of coming up with random computer passwords, then having to remember them and/or find a place to hide them when you write them down? How would you like to be able to keep your computer passwords written in plain … Continue reading
Electric Car Battery Swap Station
I viewed a video on Youtube of a ‘battery switch’ station, and the facility looked like it cost a couple million dollars. That didn’t seem very practical. If you want this idea to take off, battery swap stations have to … Continue reading
PC to Arduino to LED Control
As I’ve mentioned in previous posts (like the slideshow here), I want to build a teleoperated mining robot. Since I’m somewhat short of both cash and experience, I have to start small. One key part of the system will be … Continue reading
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Tagged arduino, diy, led, leds, microcontroller, processing, processing computer language, robotics, sketchup
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Whatever is wrong with America, it’s not lack of violin lessons
In the 1960s, the US was worried about the Missile Gap. Now we’re worried about the violinist gap? You know what I’m talking about, it’s being hyped all over the media, there’s a Chinese-American woman who calls herself the Tiger … Continue reading
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Arduino Park on Youtube
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Tagged arduino, arduino park, Arduino tutorial, arduino uno, diy, electronics, microcontroller, sketchup
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