Hello DevZone Community,
I wanted to share a unique hardware-in-the-loop implementation using the Power Profiler Kit II (PPK2). While the industry is heavily focused on manufacturing custom silicon for thermodynamic computing, my framework—BOOP (Biologically-Inspired Organic Operating Principles)—proves that these exact self-healing, biological paradigms can be achieved on commercial off-the-shelf digital microcontrollers entirely through system design.
The Hardware Loop:
• MCU: ARM Cortex
• Power Source: Sunnytech Solar Panel + Supercapacitors
• Telemetry & Constraints: Nordic PPK2 (measuring real-time milliwatt draw and voltage decay profiles).
How it Works:
Instead of operating under the standard software assumption of an infinite power supply, the C++ runtime loop is stripped of active loops and hardcoded if/else power states. Instead, the PPK2 data stream acts as a strict "metabolism" tracker (symbolic ATP and CHNOPS token accounting). By forcing a deterministic digital microcontroller to strictly obey these physical thermodynamic resource limits, several emergent behaviors naturally manifest:
1. Passive Volatility Management: During power drops ("Dark Phase"), computation smoothly decelerates along the physical capacitor decay curve, preserving state natively without panic-saving code.
2. Emergent Resource Shunting: Using a decentralized spatial algorithm, empty nodes create an energetic vacuum that naturally draws power and data down concentration gradients from insulated storage nodes—mimicking a digital placenta.
I’d love to get feedback from the Nordic Applications Engineering team on optimizing the high-frequency telemetry callback from the PPK2 to further minimize the computational overhead of the metabolic ledger itself!
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About the Researcher:
Samuel Earl Fazio is an independent researcher based in Belleville, Kansas, specializing in the intersection of biomimetic computing and hardware-in-the-loop system design. His research focuses on forcing commercial-off-the-shelf microcontrollers to mirror the complex, energy-efficient survival behaviors of biological organisms in highly volatile power environments.
BOOP A Thermodynamic Voxel Architecture for Energy-Constrained Edge Computing.pdf
