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Once and future engineer.

Molecule Maker Expansion Set

Posted on January 7, 2011 by engineerzero

Here is a screen capture of the latest version of Molecule Maker. Notice the scene tabs, which facilitate zooming in and out. I had to de-select scene transitions to make it work smoother (which, I admit, seems counterintuitive). The lines … Continue reading →

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Molecule Maker: Good Adenine and the Kit

Posted on January 6, 2011 by engineerzero

Well, I was right about being wrong. Here is adenine with the correct angles for the hydrogen bonds coming off the pentagonal ring: And here is the molecule maker kit, admittedly not looking like much for something that has kept … Continue reading →

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Molecule Maker: Uracil

Posted on January 5, 2011 by engineerzero

Uracil is really easy to make. All you have to do is get rid of the ‘antlers’ of the methyl group on thymine and replace with a ‘unicorn horn’ of hydrogen for uracil. Actually, scientists believe the evolutionary path was … Continue reading →

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Free Wireless Electricity, Non-Proof of Concept

Posted on January 4, 2011 by engineerzero

After burning incense in the Temple of Tesla, a few months ago I did a calculation on just how much electricity is naturally in the atmosphere. It would take an antenna one square kilometer in area suspended ten kilometers over … Continue reading →

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Molecule Maker: DNA Nucleotides

Posted on January 4, 2011 by engineerzero

From left to right: adenine, cytosine, thymine, guanine. They took about ten minutes each, thymine a little longer than the others because of the ‘antler.’ I found that I could copy-and-paste a lot of the molecular structure from previous work, … Continue reading →

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Molecule Maker: Isooctane

Posted on January 4, 2011 by engineerzero

Just for practice, I thought I’d try to make a simple molecule. So I went through my copy of Isaac Asimov’s The Genetic Code, and on page 40 was a diagram for isooctane that looked like this: Hmm, I thought. … Continue reading →

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Molecule Maker: Wooden stick model

Posted on January 3, 2011 by engineerzero

I decided to forgo the wikipedia model’s style of showing bonds the same color as the atom. Instead, I’m showing bonds as they would look in a physical kit with wooden sticks for bonds. It’s a lot easier to do … Continue reading →

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Molecule Maker: Adventures in Scaffolding

Posted on January 3, 2011 by engineerzero

I’ve discovered it’s easier to lay out a molecule with scaffolding as shown. The scaffolding is part of a component and can be deleted with a couple mouse clicks when it’s time to display the molecule. If you want to … Continue reading →

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Molecule Maker: Adenine Comparison (First Try)

Posted on January 2, 2011 by engineerzero

Lots of flaws become apparent when an image is finally exported. The biggest flaw is unseen here, however, and was my methodology. It took me more than an hour to assemble this thing. When I have a method that can … Continue reading →

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The Amazing Decade Ahead

Posted on January 2, 2011 by engineerzero

We are on the verge of so many scientific and technological revolutions that the next decade is going to be amazing. Here are some predictions of just how our lives and the entire world will change in the upcoming years. … Continue reading →

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