Fun things to do with the software.
I am continuing my exploration of the particle devices. This time, I have a Xenon that is connected to a TMP36 temperature sensor sitting in my office at home. Every second, it updates a variable on the cloud that contains the current temperature of my office.
I recently purchased a few particles in part because they are little devices that are named after elements that allow you to connect sensors to the internet; what about these items does not scream BoBtheChemist?
I’m currently running through some tutorials and am sure to forget a thing or three, so I’m going to chronicle my experience in hopes to (a) have a central repository for my work, (b) show that my website does have some activity (c) possibly serve as a resource for the 1-2 bots that frequent my website.
Continue readingMy Analytical Chemistry class just started the module on spectroscopy, and I wanted to have a visualization that displayed the different types of motion (rotational, translational and stretching) that molecules can experience. It turned out, I was able to make an interactive (sort of) graphic with a few lines of Mathematica code:
I recently purchased the AMG8833 thermal camera breakout from Adafruit. It’s an 8×8 pixel array of sensors that can be used to incorporate thermal vision into a project. I’m interested in monitoring a thermoelectric cooler. Adafruit provides a number of examples on how to interface the breakout with a Raspberry Pi or display connected to an Arduino. I wanted to try a different interface and see if I could control it with Mathematica. It took me longer to write this post than it did to write the software.
Temperature of 30×30 mm2 Peltier cooling device being measured with an AMG8833.
Read on if you’re interested in learning more
Now that my students are wrapping up their summer research activities, it’s time to share some of my new designs. This one is inspired by my students – they wanted to design and 3D print keychains – and Rozenn’s request to have name tags for our plants.
Rosemary, thyme and sage, with a bit of patriotism to boot.
Read on to see how I designed these, which involved a little bit of magic for the swash ornament.