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Sandia Builds Micromechanical 'Device Driver'

Posted by michael on from the working-on-the-chain-gang dept.

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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  1. Re:Moving parts bad by FrostedChaos · · Score: 2, Insightful
    MEMS has many applications, not all of which are obvious. For example, you can make a pretty nice accelerometer that fits inside a small chip.



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