Unmanned Aircraft Clustered via Bluetooth

Posted by timothy on Monday May 16, 2005 @05:12PM from the zip-around-the-room dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Researchers at the University of Essex are using Linux and tiny embedded computer modules to build fleets of unmanned aircraft that fly in flocking formations like birds, while performing parallel, distributed computing tasks using Bluetooth-connected Linux clustering software. The Gridswarm project includes model trainers that can fly 120mph, while a parallel Ultraswarm project uses co-axial helicopters. A prototype of the later is believed to the world's smallest flying web server. The aircraft will run Linux on embedded computing modules from Gumstix."

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Re:familiar by EtherAlchemist · 2005-05-16 17:43 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Balootooth?

Baloo being the bear, and a gray colored one at that. Although some screen grabs made him look blue...

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PS3 post by a3217055 · 2005-05-16 19:00 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Gumstix are nice but I have not found anything useful for it, bought mine did some devel work, and then sold it on ebay. PS The PS3 coverage at E3 rocks, where is the coverage on that ...