It's just a matter of disassembling it and moving a few components around.

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Only a few of these modular components have been designed so far: the AVR-X (an Arduino-compatible microcontroller), FRAM-X (512 byte chunks of stackable Ferroelectric RAM) and ADC-X (an 8-channel analog to digital converter).

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Shortly after, SMC, the Japanese industrial giant, sold a similar version in the U.S. It had made a few alterations?eliminating one of the components and using a different material for another part.

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Even the Canadian plant will begin to run out of components within a few days.

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Last month Apple announced it was releasing to developers source code for a few key components of its Mac OS X Server operating system.

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