MIT's Firefly Floating Helicopter
What an awesome display of swarm robotics. These self-organizing micro-bots organize themselves and emit the correct colors to form a free-floating image in the sky.
With a few hundred thousand of these you can create a fully immersive visual environment. Imagine watching a 3D 1080P movie with a few million of these surrounding you!
3D Images From Firefly Free Floating Helicopter Display
The Flyfire canvas can transform itself from one shape to another or morph a two-dimensional photographic image into an articulated shape. The pixels are physically engaged in transitioning images from one state to another, which allows the Flyfire canvas to demonstrate a spatially animated viewing experience. Flyfire serves as an initial step to explore and imagine the possibilities of this free-form display: a swarm of pixels in a space.
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Are individual FireFly Robots for sale?
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Meredith Turner
[...] and I remembered this one experiment that they did at MIT University that I found really cool. http://roboticsblog.org/2010/other-robots/mits-firefly-robots-create-floating-3d-display-from-colore... It’s basically about these small light helicopters that can be programmed in the sky to create [...]
Well, picocopters and associated small heli such as the BladeMSR are running on lipo batteries giving them 10 minutes of flying time. Seen the size of these FireFly, I assume you can’t put a bigger battery in it. So what, you have a screen for 10 minutes ? Woaw.
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