* Isopods have 7 pairs of legs all pretty much the same length.
* 74** logic gates have ... 7 pairs of legs all the same length!
Coincidence? I think not!
Clearly, each isopod contains 4 logic gates. This Armadillidium vulgare has 4 AND gates. Don't forget to connect power & ground legs & use pull-down resistors on inputs.
(best practice is to simply ask the rollie to position itself in your circuit.)
Like most natural systems. they use micro-voltages, don't use standard 5V power sources.
@futurebird You’re onto something here. I took two semesters of digital electronics and interfacing from this, The Bug Book, in grad school. Coincidence? I think not.
Is that Arduinopoda?
or do you program it with EEKPROM
@cinebox @futurebird Hey, this would be kinda cool in a sci-fantasy setting. Imagine there are some arthropod creatures with microchips embedded inside them. Now let's say that some of these microchips include wireless control signals that are also wired to their motor system, like the wired cockroaches we've seen in the news recently.
Now imagine that their legs are also conductive; imagine they got some kind of highly conductive form of chitin.
Also imagine that the creatures' DNA also got modified so the chips would get assembled right from conception - before you know it you got a gigantic mass of walking microchips, ready to be controlled at a moment's notice.
The assembly signal arrives, and before you know it these creatures are assembling themselves to form a biological supercomputer ready to process signals at their masters' whim. A fee thousand bugs now get assembled into a giant creep ball that acts as a secondary brain for a bigger monster.
Now imagine this brain is also connected with a different kind of animal - one that instead of microchips, has specially strong muscle fibers and can attach to other similar bioengineered animals.
Give it a few hours, and when assembled you got a massive army - a literal army - of self-assembling armored demons ready to attack your enemies, that can only be dispelled with a specific signal - a signal that priests in a far future society can control.
Yes, I'm definitely using this for one of my novels, bwahahahahahah! 
That's still gonna fry it, man. It's *micro* voltage... like your brain.
@futurebird I should write up my experiments in using snails to make PCBs by feeding them colloidal silver to make their slime more conductive.
I think this would be a natural fit for the technology you introduce in this paper.
Since there are 8 legs it'd need to be a spider or tick.
The velvet spider seems like a good candidate for a 555 timer!
TIL ticks are arachnids, cool!
No need for soldering, just tell the rollie where to go and they hook themselves up. If they think you don't know what you are talking about they will do it their own way.
Say goodbye to that annoying "Pick and Place" machine, these components place themselves and there's no need to bake!
@futurebird recently I learned¹ that the charge gradients in mitochondria are on the order of millions of volts per metre so I no longer think of biocircuitry as wimpy.
Did you see this! 😱 seems quasi-related. 😏
https://dailyhealthpost.com/pill-bugs-remove-heavy-metals-soil/
@Tedspence @futurebird Does anyone else remember Mr Rodger’s show doing an entire story (a musical if I recall) about pill bugs?
I’m convinced this is a real memory and not a fever dream.
I don't remember this-- but if it is real I *need* and I cannot stress this enough, I *need** to see it!
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