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Seriously though, I wonder what the setback is with using energy harvesting in general - or are we just at the beginning of the wave of energy harvesting revolution?
http://www.st.com/web/en/press/p3498 http://www.linear.com/products/energy_harvesting
This is really cool. The article is pretty light on the technical details about the actual processor architecture. I think their choice of naming is unfortunate, confusion with ARM's Cortex-M3 is quite likely. Or are you supposed to pronounce this "M to the third" or something? Update : D'oh, of course it's "M-cubed". I knew that, I blame not being a native speaker for not thinking about it. :)
I think you might be able to find more details on Blaauw's website[0]. I've also found a page with their publications[1] [0] http://blaauw.eecs.umich.edu/project.php [1] http://blaauw.eecs.umich.edu/resource.php?grp=1
AnnArbor SmartZone funding, http://www.a2gov.org/departments/finance-admin-services/smar...
U of M test track for smart/autonomous cars, http://www.mlive.com/news/ann-arbor/index.ssf/2014/03/univer...
This is really cool. The article is pretty light on the technical details about the actual processor architecture. I think their choice of naming is unfortunate, confusion with ARM's Cortex-M3 is quite likely. Or are you supposed to pronounce this "M to the third" or something? Update : D'oh, of course it's "M-cubed". I knew that, I blame not being a native speaker for not thinking about it. :)
This is really cool. Running off of ambient light! I am looking forward to what they can do with swarms of them.
Very cool. The pessimist (realist?) in me can't avoid remembering Vernor Vinge's "A Deepness in the Sky" novel, where the perfect surveillance device is a network of "dust computers".
Love that book, it also reminded me of his book/short story Fast Times at Fairmont High where they use small devices like this as breadcrumbs to keep them connected to the grid (a mesh network).
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Love that book, it also reminded me of his book/short story Fast Times at Fairmont High where they use small devices like this as breadcrumbs to keep them connected to the grid (a mesh network).
The book is Rainbows End .
From Wikipedia [0]:
> Vinge's 2006 novel, Rainbows End, set in a similar universe to Fast Times at Fairmont High, won the 2007 Hugo Award for Best Novel.
Dust-computing is upon us. All hail the holy grey goo! Seriously though, I wonder what the setback is with using energy harvesting in general - or are we just at the beginning of the wave of energy harvesting revolution? http://www.st.com/web/en/press/p3498 http://www.linear.com/products/energy_harvesting
Also the places that could use energy harvesting are sensors networks in industry and building, and those are quite conservative industries(for good reasons) and they greatly care about reliability, and also the field of sensor networks for industry is not fully developed with applications like predictive maintenance are quite new. Same goes for the medical industry , where such sensors could be valuable.
Very cool. The pessimist (realist?) in me can't avoid remembering Vernor Vinge's "A Deepness in the Sky" novel, where the perfect surveillance device is a network of "dust computers".
But seriously, ambient light harvesting and (eventually) a 20 meter communication range are the coolest parts of all this.
Ignoring the "smart swarm" applications I could see these being generally useful as an alternative to JTAG for other really small devices.