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Author Archives: engineerzero
Coming Attractions: Arduino Park
Oh, this thing has gotten out of control. Originally, I meant to have a simple blog entry with a series of Sketchup images. Then I thought about making a Youtube video. It’s not that it takes that long, but after … Continue reading
I got those adenosine triphosphate blues
Welllll, I got all the atoms and bonds right, I think. Now the problem is the angles. Oh, and to be in the cool crowd, I’ll have to indicate somehow that the single-bonded oxygens on the phosphate chain are negatively … Continue reading
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Arduino Uno uploaded to Google Sketchup 3D Warehouse
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Teleportation by Optical Tweezers
A few months ago, I learned about optical tweezers. Basically, a laser beam is used to manipulate very small particles down to individual atoms. The laser beam is not so strong as to burn up the object, but is strong … Continue reading
Let Them Eat Football
On the internet somewhere, there have been concerns raised that America is headed for a food crisis. I don’t put much stock in that and here’s why. As mentioned in my recent blog entry (The One TEU Per Family Initiative), … Continue reading
Arduino: Once More, with Photo Import
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
Arduino in Sketchup (in Progress II)
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
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
Paracetamol single-double bond representation
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
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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