MIT's Flyfire To Paint Images In the Sky Using Micro-Helicopters 65
@engadget mentions that a new project dubbed "Flyfire" at MIT is looking to launch a fleet of LED-equipped micro-helicopters and coordinate them in synchrony to create massive floating images. "By using LED-equipped drones the project pledges to build free-floating 3D displays, endowing them with enough smarts and positional awareness to organize themselves into an airborne canvas. It sounds deliciously exciting and challenging."
Batman? (Score:2, Funny)
Already been done... (Score:5, Funny)
Why reinvent the wheel? Trying to put sheep out of business? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2FX9rviEhw [youtube.com]
-Randy
easy display (Score:3, Funny)
Just have them fly 50feet up, and let them malfunction (as expected in the first few prototypes) and fall and call it a success! Now that was easy.
Oh The Horror (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Deliciously exciting?! (Score:3, Funny)
I'm from Tennessee, and people around here enjoy many amateur engineering projects involving projectiles. You may have heard of something called a "potato gun."
I have a feeling free-floating billboards would spark a resurgence in their popularity.