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A Bug and a Mechanism.

A Gear Chain with a Mite Approaching.

Mirror Mechanism with a Spider Mite. Spider mite with legs on a mirror drive assembly.

Drive Mechanism Dwarfed by Mite! The tiny gears are dwarfed by a spider mite.

Spider Mite on Mirror Assembly.

These images came from Sandia National Laboratories. According to their site this is what they’re all about:

Sandia is a world leader in the technology required for development, fabrication, and production of microelectronic, photonic, micromachine and microsensor devices and products.

Sandia also has the ability to integrate these devices into complete microsystems. Microsystems that sense, think, act, communicate and self-power will make our nation more secure, revolutionize our industries, and will make the revolution in biology a reality.

Distinguishing strengths include materials growth and development, device and product design, fabrication technologies for silicon and compound semiconductor devices, advanced packaging technologies, reliability, failure analysis and product delivery for extreme environments.

[Sandia National Laboratories]

[New Scientist]

[via next nature]

Watch as these autonomous copters take some beach ball abuse and keep flying.

“The Stanford Testbed of Autonomous Rotorcraft for Multi-Agent Control (STARMAC) is a multi vehicle test bed used to demonstrate new concepts in multi-agent control on a real-world platform. STARMAC consists of six quadrotor vehicles that autonomously track a given waypoint trajectory, and perform higher level optimal control strategies online. In order to make such a testbed easy to use, we focused on a small and light, lowcost design, which presented numerous opportunities for innovative work.”

“The resulting vehicles can fly safely in both indoor and outdoor environments, can carry computing and sensing resources sufficient for autonomous operation and perception, and have simple, reconfigurable construction with low maintenance requirements.”

[via diydrones | Starmac Stanford]

Because putting your hand under the faucet was too hard.

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[Wired has an interview with the man behind the Image Fulgurator | See previous post for video]