The effort required to keep increasing resistors in a chip is just too high at some point. And the power required to run all the chips is becoming unsustainable. Besides that, hardware companies are way over valued if you look at earnings / market cap
Pretty creative problem solving!
Nice bonus that the hole you needed to drill was sized similarly to the central hole for the bar.
Sometimes making things is not about the most fancy stuff, just making something fit for your purpose can be great too.
Cern has produced quite some interesting systems for software and data management. I am sure the added value of the work is beyond just understanding particles.
That crest is very characteristic of a goldcrest. I know of two sub species of gold crests, one has the yellow stripe the other a slightly orange stripe and body
This seems to me like the goldfinch, regulus regulus. Not the common firecrest , regulus ignicapilla.
My information sources is the Merlin Bird spotting app.
EDIT: the correct name is not goldfinch but goldcrest. As it is not in the finch family at all.
Its a mass produced bearing type. Most likely the cheapest option for both devices. Optimizing a bearing for a gerbil wheel seems like the real overengineering in my opinion.
Except wolfram alpha is able to correctly explain step by step solutions. Which was an aid in my education.