Nanomechanical simulation of atomically-precise universal joint
Mark Sims of Nanorex, a Foresight participating member, reports that he has completed the first nanomechanical simulation of the Merkle/Drexler universal joint. He used the nanoENGINEER-1 software on a Dell laptop, taking about 24 hours to complete the simulation of a 3,846-atom structure.
Mark explains: “A universal joint is a joint in a rigid rod that allows the rod to ‘bend’ in any direction. It consists of a pair of ordinary hinges located close together, but oriented at 90° relative to each other.”
The rotary motors connected to the shafts are simulated running at 100 GHz. That’s fast. —Christine
June 2nd, 2006 at 7:39 PM
Wasn’t this software supposed to have been released open source?
Or am I thinking of a different effort?
June 3rd, 2006 at 1:37 PM
I’m really curious of any news regarding Nanoengineer. When will it be available for public download and will it cost anything?
June 5th, 2006 at 9:55 AM
From the best I can tell, this progrm is supposed to be released as open-source eventually.
There is one you can downlod now called Nano-Hive at http://www.nano-hive.org/, I have not tried either so I don’t know how they compare.
June 6th, 2006 at 5:55 PM
nanoENGINEER-1 (nE-1) will be released as open source under the GNU Public License after we’ve completed a majority of the features we’ve committed to for version 1.0. While it is still difficult to determine exactly when this will be, our current estimate is late summer or early fall of 2006.
June 6th, 2006 at 5:56 PM
And yes, it will be free.
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