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Sandia Builds Micromechanical 'Device Driver'
DanielRavenNest writes: "Sandia Labs has built a tiny bicycle chain type drive out of silicon. This allows one micromechanical motor to drive multiple devices scattered about a chip."
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Can I stick a baseball card on it, and hear the racket? All the neighborhood geeks will be so jealous...Hey, this Mickey Mantle isn't worth anything, is it?
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The application that Sandia has given, at least in the past, for their micromachine efforts is better locks for nuclear warheads. So, the analogy that the article makes to sewing machine factories only makes sense if they were nuclear sewing machines.
thad
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this is great news for the little computer elves that do all the calculations in my computer. They've been slaving away on their abicii for years, now i can buy them bicycles with nano-chains and stuff!
All you need to do is lithograph a 2-micron long hairpin, and that sucker's yours!!!
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I'll be able to add a bike in a tightrope number to my flea circus.
The Ultra-micro-featherweight class of robot wars! (Or battlebots, or robotica, or whatever)
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will be necessary to keep it from gunking up.
"Would it kill you to put down the toilet seat?" -- Maya Angelou
or going in circles shouting "Kernel Panic" or something.
Just an image. Tron with bicyles ;-)
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Now instead of one big honkin noisy fan, we can have the same noisy motor drive zillions of lil itty bitty fans (imagine if every little vent hole in your computer had a fan in it wheeeeee). Or maybe a huge wall full of these, would be safer to stick your finger into that then a big cut-your-finger-off fan.
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Computer, knit me a jersey, bit two perl one :-)
How do you oil the chain?
If the chain breaks do you bend a valve?
Just look at those gears. Man, with technology like that we can finally reduce Babbage's Analytical Engine to something that'll fit on a chip.
Now that's a microcomputer!
-- Alastair
This is going to use one tiny chainbreaker :P
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