Spintronics - Learning electronics with mechanics?

[m98]

Not sure how useful that would be to learn electronics, but it certainly looks fun to play around with.

[PlainName]

Steve Mould has done a video which shows how Spintronics works and what it's capable of. Much better appreciation of it than just looking at the bits and wondering how you'd make stuff.

[eti]

Steve Mould has done a video which shows how Spintronics works and what it's capable of. Much better appreciation of it than just looking at the bits and wondering how you'd make stuff.

He sure has: https://www.eevblog.com/forum/chat/(yt)-mechanical-circuits-electronics-without-electricity/

I hadn’t realised Dave had posted this topic. Fabulous teaching aid.

[GeeBee2020]

Fruit Flys like a banana; Time Flies like an arrow
-- Groucho Marx

[eti]

Fruit Flys like a banana; Time Flies like an arrow
-- Groucho Marx

What's the relevance? 🙁

[RJSV]

   I'd like to believe, ideally, that we humans ALWAYS have an abstract form:
   "What if we could make something that will ADD two numbers together ?".
   Notice that functional statement didn't really get into mentioning 'electronics', slide rules etc.

[John B]

There may be a target demographic for it, but it has long been a pet peeve of mine starting (especially young people) on gimmicky analogues rather than just on the actual topic. This isn't just a problem in electronics, but also in computer programming, music education etc....

[RJSV]

   Ebastler: You asked 'What is it good for?'...
  Answer is, unfortunately, somewhat flippant:
   "...The thing is good for... Making an ANALOGY..." They will declare, (with a straight face).
...I was working in the 'educational products' industry, for some number of years..."What did we make ? " you ask ?
I just told you; "We make educational products."
That's a whole, separate world, in itself.  No one, absolutely NO ONE, not one educator EVER showed even the slightest interest, in going beyond the rhetoric,
beyond, maybe, saying "I heard, that COMPUTERS are going to be a big thing...".
Statements like that.  Course, don't lose faith, I just got an 'unlucky stretch', of cynics feedback.

   'Educational' has become a buzzword, for me, as around 10 years ago, that topic became overused, in presidential debates, even!