🚀 go-pugleaf

I'm curious to know if anyone out there is working on extensive designs
of actual nanodevices, even though there is no practical method of
assembling them yet.  I know that some really simple building blocks have
been proposed (e.g. carbyne rods) but I wonder if anything really extensive
has been done.
A while back I saw a Scientific American article that told how some MIT
students had designed a Tinker-Toy computer.  Sounds like good practice
for aspiring nano-engineers...

                                      Erik Rossen

[Eric is doing some fairly thoroughgoing designs, primarily as existence
 proofs.  Most serious nanotech fans (like me) seem to have dabbled in
 a few fairly high-level type schemes but not to have done any 
 "engineering-level" work the way Eric has.  One major reason is that
 nobody (including Eric) expects the actual designs he's doing right now
 to get built--by the time they're possible, they'll look like Babbage's
 computer, and faster, more effective, and economical designs will have
 evolved, probably using a lot of QM which our current designs go to
 lots of trouble to keep out!
 --JoSH]