Tiny, long-armed dinosaur leads to rethink of dinosaur miniaturization

https://misryoum.com/us/reviews/tiny-long-armed-dinosaur-leads-to-rethink-of/

The real surprise, though, came when researchers realized that Alnashetri wasn’t a highly specialized, late-stage Alvarezsauroid. Instead, despite living in the Late Cretaceous, it occupied an early-branching position among earlier, basal members of the clade. This combination of tiny...

#Tiny #longarmed #dinosaur #leads #rethink #dinosaur #miniaturization #US_News_Hub #misryoum_com

PCB devboard the size of a USB-C plug

https://github.com/Dieu-de-l-elec/AngstromIO-devboard

#HackerNews #PCB #devboard #USB-C #Plug #Innovation #Tech #Hardware #Miniaturization

Odkryj rozwiązania stworzone do pracy w wymagających warunkach i wybierz dokładnie taki sposób obsługi, który najlepiej odpowiada Twojej misji.

Master Your Mission. Go WAGO.
https://masteryourmission.wago.com/pl/powerelectronics

#MasterYourMission #Energoelektronika #Technologia #Inżynieria #Projektowanie #Połączenia #Złącza #złączki #wielowtyki #napędy #Automatyzacja #Robotyka #HVAC #Przemysł40 #TechnologiePrzyszłości #powerelectronics #miniaturization #WAGO

Przyszłość elektroniki mierzy się w milimetrach!

Nowe wielowtyki WAGO MCS MICRO z dźwigniami udowadniają, że miniaturyzacja to dziś nie opcja, a przewaga konkurencyjna.
Kompaktowe. Beznarzędziowe. Niezawodne.
Idealne do urządzeń, które muszą być mniejsze, lżejsze i bardziej funkcjonalne niż kiedykolwiek.

Twoja misja: Miniaturyzacja
https://masteryourmission.wago.com/pl

#Miniaturization #Powerelectronics #MasterYourMission #PCB #WAGO #MCS #Micro

 Possibly-Smallest ESP32 Board uses Smallest-Footprint Parts.

Whenever there’s a superlative involved, you know that degree of optimization has to leave something else on the table. In the case of [PegorK]’s f32, the smallest ESP32 dev board I’ve seen, the cost of miniaturization is GPIO.

https://github.com/PegorK/f32?tab=readme-ov-file

#f32 #miniaturization #esp32 #dev #board #diy #engineering #media #tech #art #news

nanobots' spring project

#FutureTech #IntricateComponents #MachineMadeMachines #Iridescent #GlowingElements #SciFiTheme #MacroPhotographyStyle #Miniaturization
#Img2img #AiArt #AiArtists #StableDiffusion #AiArtCommunity

this IRL: https://aieris.art/featured/nanobots-spring-project-eris-and-ai.html

Washington State University researchers have created the world's smallest, lightest, and fastest micro-robots, resembling a mini-bug and a water strider. Weighing eight and 55 milligrams, these micro-robots move at approximately six millimeters per second.

They feature tiny, less than a milligram actuators made of shape memory alloy (SMA) for movement without traditional motors. SMA technology allows efficient and energy-saving operation, requiring minimal electricity or heat.

The robots demonstrate remarkable agility and efficiency, with potential applications in artificial pollination, search and rescue, environmental monitoring, and robotic-assisted surgery. Future enhancements may include studying natural insect movements for optimization.

#MicroRobots #Robotics #TechInnovation #WSUResearch #ShapeMemoryAlloy #Miniaturization #ArtificialPollination #SurgicalRobotics #EnvironmentalMonitoring #BioinspiredTech

Review: Miniature battery-free #bioelectronics

"The extreme #miniaturization and long functional lifetime that are enabled by battery-free technologies point toward a future in which networks of tiny bioelectronics could be distributed throughout the body to accurately sense physiological states and apply therapies when and where they are needed." #EnergyHarvesting
(paywall, sorry, but you get the abstract)
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abn4732

A connectome of the optic lobe of the extremely tiny fairy wasp, Megaphragma sp.

"A complete reconstruction of the early visual system of an adult insect", by Chua et al. 2023 (Chklovskii & Polilov) https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S096098222301237X

Don't miss the supplemental figures.

"Compared with the honeybee and the fruit fly, Megaphragma exhibits the following miniaturization-related adaptations: a significant reduction in the number of ommatidia, absence of several cell types, reduced size, and denucleation of neurons. Interestingly, the reduction in lens diameter is less than that expected from the optimization of the optical resolution of the eye. This suggests that light sensitivity is a more important
consideration when lens diameter approaches the wavelength of light. The absence of wide-field (or non-columnar) lamina neurons in Megaphragma could be a consequence of the smaller number of ommatidia, their larger acceptance angle, and the lower resolving power of the eye."

Volume assembled with #FijiSc and #TrakEM2, and its neurons and synapses mapped with #CATMAID. Woohoo!

#neuroscience #connectomics #VolumeEM #vEM #insects #miniaturization