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Interesting video. Thanks. During the video the presenter mentions the loops need to be a similar diameter. If the loops were arranged in a drum formation rath

Interesting video. Thanks. During the video the presenter mentions the loops need to be a similar diameter. If the loops were arranged in a drum formation rather than a disc you could have as many loops as you want. Also, I wonder if this wirtz pump could be powered by tiny motors also created as part of the 3d print. This guy does something similar with a pcb: https://youtu.be/1taXx1L8YEs https://youtu.be/1taXx1L8YEs Perhaps tiny magnets could be 3d printed as just iron beads that are then magnetised afterward?

samstave 3y ago
"Tiny Magnets" Imagine you have a cohesive, but ferro-fludic-plug (in the oil and gas industry, its called a PIG I think) But you have a gelataneous, ferro-fluidic plug that is capable of flowing through the complex path of a Tesla Valve - you could direct the plug to flow through the trace magnetically. You could have "passing lanes where the ferro-fluid can exit the valve through another ferro-fluid "door" on the side of the trace - such that you can block, unblock tesla valves with a captured blob of a ferro-fluid that can be stored in the side reservoir. and in a weightless environment, you can use the megnetic ferro-plug to pump fluid continuously this way was the ferrofluid could loop back to an earlier spot through the side channel that only it can enter... If the channels are for micro fluidics, and you have electrical traces along the channels, they could be used to magnetically move things around/open close pathways... and given the current materials that they can print, surely they can print the precise particles needed for the ferrofluid - especially if they are shaped like bucky balls that may be able to be directed to form perfectly packed "walls" where they particle geometry all nests and stacks in a more crystalline pattern? I wonder if this method could allow for micro-fluid-hydraulics, where you can pump the micro hydraulic fluid via ferro-fluids, relying on the tesla valve to allow for forward pressure, and to release pressure, you open a back valve in the same manner.... with a tesla valve in the oposite direction, idealy have them in a helix where one helix is direction a and the other is direction b - and you can have ferrofluid gates at any cross member spine btwn the helix, just as dna... but made out of carbon nanotube bucky ball particles hahah
- nuc1e0n 3y ago
  Interesting. So like electrically actuated micro valves right? Cool idea
  - samstave 3y ago
    exactly, seems like it will work at a range of scales.

samstave 3y ago

"Tiny Magnets" Imagine you have a cohesive, but ferro-fludic-plug (in the oil and gas industry, its called a PIG I think) But you have a gelataneous, ferro-fluidic plug that is capable of flowing through the complex path of a Tesla Valve - you could direct the plug to flow through the trace magnetically. You could have "passing lanes where the ferro-fluid can exit the valve through another ferro-fluid "door" on the side of the trace - such that you can block, unblock tesla valves with a captured blob of a ferro-fluid that can be stored in the side reservoir. and in a weightless environment, you can use the megnetic ferro-plug to pump fluid continuously this way was the ferrofluid could loop back to an earlier spot through the side channel that only it can enter... If the channels are for micro fluidics, and you have electrical traces along the channels, they could be used to magnetically move things around/open close pathways... and given the current materials that they can print, surely they can print the precise particles needed for the ferrofluid - especially if they are shaped like bucky balls that may be able to be directed to form perfectly packed "walls" where they particle geometry all nests and stacks in a more crystalline pattern? I wonder if this method could allow for micro-fluid-hydraulics, where you can pump the micro hydraulic fluid via ferro-fluids, relying on the tesla valve to allow for forward pressure, and to release pressure, you open a back valve in the same manner.... with a tesla valve in the oposite direction, idealy have them in a helix where one helix is direction a and the other is direction b - and you can have ferrofluid gates at any cross member spine btwn the helix, just as dna... but made out of carbon nanotube bucky ball particles hahah

nuc1e0n 3y ago
Interesting. So like electrically actuated micro valves right? Cool idea
- samstave 3y ago
  exactly, seems like it will work at a range of scales.