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Arduino Uno uploaded to Google Sketchup 3D Warehouse

Posted on January 22, 2011 by engineerzero
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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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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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Sketchup Molecular Model for Guanine, Uploaded to 3D Warehouse

Posted on January 10, 2011 by engineerzero

Check it out in Google 3D Warehouse here. I’m going slow on the uploading, for two reasons. First, there’s always a good possibility that there is a fundamental shortcoming in my design which will force me to redo everything. Second, … Continue reading →

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Icosahedral chlorine atom

Posted on January 8, 2011 by engineerzero

As I started to add more atoms to the Sketchup molecule maker kit, I realized that the chemistry model color convention breaks down past the basic four atoms of hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen, and carbon. Green, for example, is used for … 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: 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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Water Molecules in the Sun

Posted on December 31, 2010 by engineerzero

I slapped this together and then realized that the bonds look too long. But the hydrogen atom angle is 109 degrees, which I believe is right. The shadows are for 1:30 PM on June 21, which is utterly gratuitous information … Continue reading →

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