Nanorex mechanical design software

[Aether]

Nanorex, Inc. is due to release its NanoEngineer-1 software this fall. With this software you will be able to design your own atomically precise mechanical machines. It may be ten to twenty years before we have the http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2022170440316254003 to actually synthesize such devices on demand, but we can simulate them rather well already.

I don't know if this first release of NanoEngineer-1 will be able to simulate electronic circuits and the interactions of individual photons with these atomically precise machines, but that would really be interesting if it did. We would be able to start designing atomically precise scientific instruments at that point.

http://nanoengineer-1.com/content/images/stories/gallery/assemblies/couplings/universal%20joint/a8/a8_animation3.gif

NanoEngineer-1™ is an open-source (GPL) 3D multi-scale modeling and simulation program for nano-composites with special support for structural DNA nanotechnology. It features an easy-to-use interactive 3D graphical user interface for designing and modeling large, atomically precise composite systems.

For simulation and analysis, NanoEngineer-1 supports multiple molecular dynamics and quantum mechanics systems in a single environment, providing a wide range of nano-scale simulation capabilities...NanoEngineer-1 is currently under development and is scheduled for release in the fall of 2007. -- http://nanoengineer-1.com/content/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=34&Itemid=35

Here are some more animations of atomically precise devices that were designed using NanoEngineer-1 software (http://nanoengineer-1.com/content/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=40&Itemid=50):

http://nanoengineer-1.com/content/images/stories/gallery/assemblies/gears/srg-i/a8/a8_qm_animation5.gif

http://nanoengineer-1.com/content/images/stories/gallery/assemblies/gears/srg-ii/a8/a8_pov_small_animation2.gif

http://nanoengineer-1.com/content/images/stories/gallery/assemblies/gears/srg-iii/a8/a8_pov_animation2.gif

http://nanoengineer-1.com/content/images/stories/gallery/assemblies/gears/diff%20gear/a8/a8_pov_animation2.gif

http://nanoengineer-1.com/content/images/stories/gallery/assemblies/pumps/neon%20pump/a8_qm_neonpump1.gif

http://nanoengineer-1.com/content/images/stories/gallery/assemblies/bearings/small%20bearing/a8/pov_animation2.gif

http://nanoengineer-1.com/content/images/stories/gallery/assemblies/bearings/large%20bearing/a8/pov_animation1.gif

 

[penguinraider]

*drooling* Awesome!

 

[technologicle]

I have been trying to install Nanoengineer-1 v1.1.1 on Ubuntu 9.04

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=7027960#post7027960

The software is listed at SourceForge. There appear to be no downloads available.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/nanoengineer-1/

I would like to see an installer made for Ubuntu Linux. It would be nice if the open source community would begin developing Nanoengineer-1 .

 

[Blenton]

Whats powering these things?

 

[technologicle]

Blenton,

One option to power these devices are electrostatic motors:

http://e-drexler.com/d/06/00/Nanosystems/ch1/chapter1_5.html
http://www.google.com/search?q=nanotechnology+electrostatic+motor
http://www.google.com/search?q=nanotechnology+electrostatic+motor+drexler

 

[Cyrus]

Wow, you've got to be kidding me!

 

[Aether]

Whats powering these things?

This device, for example, is a http://nanoengineer-1.com/content/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=45&Itemid=55" which can be reversed to operate as a compressed neon-powered motor.

http://nanoengineer-1.com/content/images/stories/gallery/assemblies/pumps/neon%20pump/a8_pov_animation.gif

http://nanoengineer-1.com/content/images/stories/gallery/assemblies/pumps/neon%20pump/a8_components.gif

In one mode of operation it could serve as a pump (for neon atoms) and in another it could be used to convert neon pressure to drive the rotor, making it a rotary motor.

 

[OAQfirst]

This is as scary as it is amazing.