periodic table color coded by orbital filling

PERIODIC TABLE COLOR CODED BY ORBITAL FILLING INSTALL
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Meanwhile I am still commissioning the machine and learning my way around Easel and I will need to decide if I should use, and therefore teach 11-14 year olds to use some other program to send G-code (something else I barely comprehend) to the machine. I’m not asking the community for answers here, just sharing my thoughts, but certainly I’d listen to opinions.Īnyway, my first step is to learn Inkscape, but that’s going to take a few days. Lewis dot diagrams for the rest, or maybe just electron configurations in the usual form (Ar+4s2,3d10,4p1 etc.) or? Should they be in various colors to identify them by group (metals, semi-metals, noble gases, etc?) Descriptive text might be good, but hard to read if the tiles are on the floor and too much detail might make the tiles fragile in a school setting. I am thinking about whether they should contain other information…a Bohr model might be useful for the first three periods. It is proving to be a lot of work to learn, and if I am wasting my time, I’d appreciate knowing that before I get too much further in, but I can’t justify the cost of Corel Draw unless there is fatal reason to avoid Inkscape.ĭesign Elements: The tiles will contain atomic number and mass as well as symbol and name. If anyone thinks I am making a horrendous mistake with Inkscape for this purpose, please speak up.

PERIODIC TABLE COLOR CODED BY ORBITAL FILLING PLUS

I also think Inkscape would be a useful program to teach to my students because it seems to have many elements found in CAD programs such as DraftSight and AutoCad, and that are useful in things like game and web design, plus the same files could be used with a laser cutter and I am imagining that down the line there might be projects that could use both fabrication techniques on the same work piece…things cut with the X-Carve and engraved with a laser.

svg files that I can import into EASEL, or can use in some other program.

I have NO experience with graphic design software, but Inkscape seems like the only program within my budget that can create a base template that I can then quickly edit with different information for each element/tile. My rough plan is to use the X-Carve to create a floor tile for each element from asphalt tile by covering each tile with some sort of masking film, carving the tile and filling the engraving with epoxy or some other material dyed dark with aniline dye or some other pigment, then sanding the epoxy flush before removing the masking film.ĭesign and currently my biggest worry: I plan to design and draft the tiles in Inkscape.

PERIODIC TABLE COLOR CODED BY ORBITAL FILLING INSTALL

I thought it would be cool to create a periodic table of the elements from floor tiles and install them on the floor of a school chemistry lab. I am NOT an engineer, but I think I have the chops to figure this out. Formerly I was a carpenter and I can also read, interpret and follow most technical writing after having practiced law for a while, and I have done lots of model airplane and model railroading. I agreed to take the job because they agreed to buy the X-Carve machine for the shop, and I am committed to teaching the kids to use it too. In April I agreed to become a STEM/shop teacher and to re-commission a middle school shop program that has been basically dark for much of the last decade.

But I was a science and math teacher for the last ten years. Not only do I have no experience with CNC, I have none with graphic design. I am making a bunch of assumptions about things that I have NEVER done before. I am sorting out the work flow and tool chain and there is a lot I will have to learn, so I want to run my outline past you guys to see what you think. OK, I have had the machine (X-Carve 1000mm, 24v spindle) for just two days, and want to take on a pretty ambitious project.

Periodic table color coded by orbital filling