Torcs Car Setup Editor is an Open Source program with the GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE designed to edit the physics of cars for TORCS (The Open Racing Car Simulator).

Cars for TORCS

In this section you can download several cars for Torcs and Speed Dreams made with blender and under de GPL license.

To install in linux and windows you will only need to unzip and copy the files to your torcs installation directory (detailed instructions in the zip file)

	Downoload TuxKart and drivers for TORCS This download contains. TuxKart (from SuperTuxKart) Clone of Olethros Driver for this car (10 Karts) already compiled for linux and windows. Installation instructions
	available to download soon
	available to download soon
	Download the car formula-torcs. This Open wheel car model (f1) has 771 cv at 1600rpm. You can edit the phisics by using the TORCS car setup editor.

Drivers into TORCS

The vicente Racing Team will be a racing team for torcs. This robot is being developed an in the near future it will be finished.

Formula 1 cars and Trakcs into TORCS

TORCS (The Open Racing Car Simulator) is the best game to edit and modify that exists.

We can modify every thing: cars, tracks, phisics of the cars

(engine, suspensions, gears,...) in few minutes. TORCS have a version for Windows and for linux.

Go to Torcs Section of my home page.

Renders of gp4 cars with Blender

In this tutorial I explain how to make a render of a gp4 car (from the .gp4 files) with the open source (and free, of course) 3D design program blender:  Blender Tutorial

Crea tu volante y pedales para el ordenador

Altrivia - The Alchemist's Trivia

High Quality Renders for Chemical Structures

We can create high quality renders for our chemical models with Blender. To do this render first we need a pdb file of our molecule. I usually use gaussian to perform my calculantions and I use molden to view the output files. Then I export the molecule in Tinker xyz format. Then I convert the tinker xyz file to pdb wiht xyz2pdb ( the xyz2pdb-src-linux_bin-windows_bin.zip contains the source code (written in C) and binaries compided for linux and windows). To use xyz2pdb open a terminal in linux or the cmd in Windows and execute xyz2pdb -help to obtain a list of help:

$ ./xyz2pdb -help

Usage: ./xyz2pdb [<flags> with arguments, as follows]

 -o <PDB file name>        default is <stdout>
 -xyzfile <XYZ file name>  default is <stdin>
 -debug <level>            0 to 9 [0]
 -backbone                 output backbone only
 -noh                      don't output hydrogen atoms
 -noh2o                    don't output water molecules
 -nourea                   don't output urea molecules
 -usebond                  derive bond info from input file only
 -help                     print this information

Therefore to convert our xyz file we must use:

$ ./xyz2pdb -xyzfile myfile.xyz -o myfile.pdb

Then we will import this pdb file into Blender with pdb2blender.py, this python script is already in a blender file, pdb2blend12.blend. To use the script open the file pdb2blend12.blend in blender, then in the left window right click and execute script, setup the parameters to import and click on Import button to select the pdb file.

Now we can play with blender and modify the properties of the materials, add some reflections... and we have something like this  (you can try with this files: ts-tinker.xyz, ts.pdb).

Development of Chemistry Software

I've been working in the development of useful software that I'm using to do my research in my PhD degree on Organic Chemistry.

Most of these sofware has been developed in the Python programming language and the libraries: SciPy, Matplotlib and PIL (Python Image Library) for python. The user graphical interface (GUI) has beed develped by using the GTK interface wit the aid of glade.

• SEM batch image processing
• Batch image processing to put all the images labeled into the same image and with the correct label
• IR-ATR deconvolution and fitting
• Advanced Kinetic Fitting with Mathematica (cooming soon)
• UV and CD script to batch process files
• Advanced batch processing of xyz files to create Gaussian input files
• Script to automatically represent a PES from a Gaussian calculation

All of these sofware is available to download free of charge with the GNU license. Any Suggestion to improve the software by adding new features or fixing bugs will be welcome.

International Chemistry Olympiad

This year the International Chemistry Olympiad are in Tokyo. As the laste year I've been working with the 4 Spanish students to prepare the Organic Chemistry topics for the Olympiad.
The Spanish IChO Team won 3 bronze medals in this competition on Tokyo 2010.
For more information about the IChO 2010 in Japan visit http://www.icho2010.org

On 2009 the IChO was in  the UK, we obtained one Bronze medal and one Honorable Mention.

Molecular Complex Stability Fit for Python (MCSFITPY)

A Program to calculate Binding Constants from different data using python. The main interface is designed with PyGTK and glade-3.  The program is released under the GNU General Public License. The autor of the program is Vicente Marti Centelles.

Download Molecular Complex Stability Fit for Python (MCSFITPY) v0.1b.

This is the first release of the program and it's under developtment. If you find any problems please report them in order to improve the program. I hope to improve it in the near future and create a documentation with references to the ecuations used in the adjust algorithms and a short explanation of the algorithms implemented in the software.

This program is specially desgined to obtain stability constants from NMR (Nuclear Magnetic Resonance) titration experiments, UV titration experiments...

As the pragram is a python script (i.e. it doesn't need installation) runs under Linux and Windows. You need to install ipython, scipy and pylab.

Installation of python and libraries in Ubuntu 9.04

sudo apt-get install ipython
sudo apt-get install python-scipy 
sudo apt-get install python-matplotlib
sudo apt-get install python-gtk2
sudo apt-get install python-gtk2-dev
sudo apt-get install libgtk2.0-dev
sudo apt-get install glade
sudo apt-get install python-matplotlib
sudo apt-get install python-tk

Installation of python and libraries in Windows (it works on Windows XP, Windows Vista...):

To install python:

• python-2.5.1
• ipython-0.9.1.win32-setup
• matplotlib-0.98.3.win32-py2.5
• numpy-1.2.1-win32-superpack-python2.5 
• scipy-0.7.0b1-win32-superpack-python2.5
• (the library msvcp71 if error occurs)

To install glade and gtk+: 

• gtk-2.12.9-win32-1
• gtk-2.12.9-win32-2
• gtk-dev-2.12.9-win32-1
• gtk-dev-2.12.9-win32-2
• pygtk-setup (select 1 and 3,  not select the the number 2 of Python because we already installed it)

To run the program just start py-glade.py. The next image shows the interface in an screenshot of the program:

The output of the program is a web page with the graphics of the adjust: output.

Useful software for Computational Chemistry

I've made a list with some useful programs to me: (under construction)

Molden,
Molekel,
jmol
VMD,
Gabedit
Chimera, http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/chimera/
ArgusLab
Ghemical
Viewmol
GaussSum

Macromodel
Spartan
Gauss View
Gaussian

I Jornadas de coordinación docente secundaria-universidad en los ámbitos de la física y la química 

La física y la química han repercutido enormemente en importantes avances científicos y tecnológicos. Logros como la obtención de nuevos materiales, el diseño de fármacos o la síntesis de catalizadores, han hecho posible la mejora del estado de bienestar de la sociedad, la inversión estratégica en el desarrollo y la competitividad investigadora entre países. La educación, tanto secundaria como universitaria, juega un papel crucial en la consecución de estos avances, dado que los estudiantes adquieren los conocimientos y aspiraciones científicas necesarias para definirse como futuros investigadores y profesionales.

En este sentido, la mejora del aprendizaje y del dominio de competencias en física y química constituye un importante reto en los sistemas educativos europeos, pues repercute en la actual sociedad que basa su economía en el conocimiento.

Conscientes del desafío que encierra el incremento de la calidad del aprendizaje en estas disciplinas, hemos planteado un encuentro entre el profesorado de secundaria y el universitario en estas jornadas con el fin de analizar la situación actual en la provincia de Castellón bajo la perspectiva de los actuales retos de conocimiento y profesionales.

Los interesados en presentar comunicaciones deberán remitir antes del 4 de marzo de 2009 un resumen de su propuesta con una extensión máxima de dos páginas según el modelo indicado en la página web ( http://jornadasfq.uji.es ) a la siguiente dirección
electrónica: jornadasfq@gmail.com

La charla que di en las Jornadas de Física y Química de la UJI. http://jornadasfq.uji.es

Ver la presentación  “Introducción a la síntesis química. Prácticas de laboratorio para secundaria” de Vicente Martí Centelles en formato powerpoint.

Para ver las otras presentaciones ir a esta web.

Congreso de Jóvenes Investigadores Sigma-Aldrich 2008 Santiago de Compostela

TORCS Car Setup Editor v0.11

Torcs Car Setup Editor is an Open Source program with the GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE designed to edit the physics of cars for TORCS (The Open Racing Car Simulator).

This new version is already compiled for linux and windows. And it contains a linux installer (sudo ./install.sh and run the torcs-car-setup-editor from the terminal with tcse). More information is in the documentation of the program that you will found wen you download it.

You can go to the TORCS car setup editor  page for more info or to f1torcs,

The downloads for Torcs Car Setup Editor v0.11 are

 Download Torcs Car Setup Editor v0.11 source code compiled in linux and windows. It also contains a linux installer.

Download Torcs Car Setup Editor v0.11 Windows Installer

Now to install the program is more easy:

In linux: in a console window

sudo ./install.sh

the program is installed in: /usr/local/share/games/torcs/tcse

to run torcs-car-setup-editor: in the terminal just type: tcse

In windows: run the installer and then select the folder where is
torcs installed (by default C:\Program Files\torcs) and tcse will be installed
and a desktop shortcut will be created.

New TORCS Splash Logo

Bart has developed a new Splash logo for torcs.

How To Compile Torcs fron the sources in ubuntu 7.10

Download fron www.torcs.org the sources. Then you will need to install some dependences.

sudo apt-get install plib1.8.4-dev

sudo apt-get install libghc6-openal-dev

download and install freealut from the internet
    ./configure
    make
    sudo make install

sudo apt-get install libxmu-dev

sudo apt-get install libXxf86vm-dev

Now we will compile and install torcs, first of all:

./configure --x-libraries=/usr/lib/

Now all should be ok (if the configure script ends OK) and we can compile the project:

make
make install
make datainstall

TORCS Car Setup Editor

Torcs Car Setup Editor is an Open Source program with the GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE designed to edit the physics of cars for TORCS (The Open Racing Car Simulator).

The program is programmed using OpenGL (with GLUI 2.35 ). So it works in Windows and Linux.

You can go to the TORCS car setup editor  page for more info, you can Download Torcs Car Setup Editor v0.10.

 Formula 1 cars and Trakcs into TORCS

TORCS (The Open Racing Car Simulator) is the best game to edit and modify that exists.
We can modify every thing: cars, tracks, phisics of the cars (engine, suspensions, gears,...) in few minutes. TORCS have a version for Windows and for linux.

 Web de mi volante

Hace un tiempo empecé a construir un volante para el ordenador, ahora he decidido explicar como lo hice en esta web.  Ir pagina volante

Web original

Esta es la web original.

En esta pagina hay varios estilos disponibles que pueden ser visualizados con mozilla firefox: Ver -> Estilo de Página y seleccionar el estilo.