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Each part should be 3D printer and assembled to counting device

Links:

From Scientific American, December 1964, pages 80-88:

http://miriam-english.org/files/fluidics/FluidControlDevices.html


Coding and Computation in Microfluidics(coanda-less pneumonic devices ):

http://cba.mit.edu/events/07.05.fluid/

Exploring macro scale fluidic logic systems in LGA:


https://courses.cs.washington.edu/courses/cse599d/13au/projects/AaronParks/macro.htm

Aerodinamics effecrts in pneumonic:

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    Step 1: Reproduce "Volga" logical elements

    Using album of USSR "Volga" fluidic elements we need to redraw it, model in 3D, model LGA simulation and create prototypes.

    Each element would have 50x30x5mm or something like this and represent one elementary logic operation

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    Step 2: binary neuron experiments

    Let's take one XOR element, two RS-triggers and two 2AND elements and combine them into elementary binary neuron with two (or more) inputs. Each input have only two states - On and Off, and weights can be 1 and 0. So we send input to XOR element or not.

    Current weight states are stored in RS-triggers, so we can program them before use.

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    Step 3: Fluidic neurons prototypes

    We put neuron schematic into one logic element, let's name this element of Neva series.

    As fluidic elements by themselves are small (10x10mm) and only air tracts are take most part of chip space we can put or five elements into the module with the same size as Volga elements.

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Yann Guidon / YGDES wrote 04/26/2021 at 14:30 point

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IxXaizglscw
Slightly related ;-)

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Artem Kashkanov wrote 04/06/2020 at 08:55 point

I'm note sure that I want to explore microwave devices :)

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Yann Guidon / YGDES wrote 04/06/2020 at 10:39 point

Ooops !

It was a mistake, sorry, I erase it :-)

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Artem Kashkanov wrote 04/06/2020 at 08:58 point

As for microfluidics this is very interesting tools, but harder to replay that "big" fluidics.

I found some methods how to do microfluidic elements - e.g. this one https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNBg_1GPuH0

Look like easy to try.

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Sbitardov wrote 02/03/2018 at 15:54 point

Hi Artem, do you know there are dozens of Soviet books about fluidics? It is called пневмоника, but that`s the same thing.

See e.g. here:

http://publ.lib.ru/ARCHIVES/B/''Biblioteka_po_avtomatike''/_''Biblioteka_po_avtomatike''_0400-0499_.html (books No 457, 478 and more, switch pages at the top)

http://retrolib.narod.ru/books14/1965_salmanson.djvu

https://www.twirpx.com/file/1603666/

http://lab18.ipu.ru/projects/conf2013/1/2.htm

http://publ.lib.ru/ARCHIVES/G/GERC_Elena_Vasil'evna/Pnevmaticheskie_ustroystva_i_sistemy_v_mashinostroenii.[djv-fax].zip

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Artem Kashkanov wrote 02/23/2018 at 09:37 point

Hi, Cool books list. Thanks! Yes, I already have some books in this list.

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Yann Guidon / YGDES wrote 02/01/2018 at 12:38 point

Why is the project private ?

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Artem Kashkanov wrote 02/01/2018 at 12:54 point

Just because of draft status)

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Yann Guidon / YGDES wrote 02/01/2018 at 11:51 point

Oh my.
If you throw LGA simulations in the project, there is NO WAY I could refuse your invitation !

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Artem Kashkanov wrote 02/01/2018 at 11:56 point

Assume LGA(or other) simulation is only one way to get a guarantee that this will work

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Yann Guidon / YGDES wrote 02/01/2018 at 12:38 point

You know I'm a LGA fanatic ? :P

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Artem Kashkanov wrote 02/01/2018 at 13:13 point

From this moment I know :) As for me I never used LGA before

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