* 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.

https://archive.org/details/bugbookviintrodu0000lars

The bugbook VI : introductory experiments in digital electronics, 8080A microcomputer programming, and 8080A microcomputer interfacing : Larsen, David G : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

560 pages in various pagings : 23 cm

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