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rmhsilvaon Michigan Micro Mote – World's Smallest Computer

Or the "EDust" (everything dust) assassin in Iain M. Banks' novel "Look To Windward"...

That said, this is awesome. Next step - useful actuation on the same scale.

I suspect he uses both 120VAC and 12VDC - the first to provide a clock reference, and the second to power the circuitry. It wouldn't be hard to wire in the 120VAC connection in addition to having a 12VDC adapter.

rmhsilvaon How I created two images with the same MD5 hash

This reminds me of a very interesting challenge on smashthestack.org (IO #11 I believe), involving creating two brainfuck programs with the same MD5 hash, which produced quite different outputs. Excellent learning process. Having this article probably would have cut a week off the time it took to complete...