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."
Links to project site and video (Score:1, Informative)
project site: http://senseable.mit.edu/flyfire/ [mit.edu]
video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CnEN9B18v6Q [youtube.com]
Re:Great for sports! (Score:3, Informative)
turn the goal posts into Tesla coils and voila!
Yes this sounds like a wonderful way to reduce our idiot problem here in the states.
Re:Ah, the ethusiasm of youth (Score:3, Informative)
Accurate submeter 3D positioning is quite hard.
Hard but solved [csiro.au].