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MIT's Flyfire To Paint Images In the Sky Using Micro-Helicopters

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the bundles-of-led-joy dept.

@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."

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  1. Batman? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Maybe this will save on energy costs of using super bright spotlights as Batman beacons.

  2. Already been done... by RJFerret · · Score: 4, Funny

    Why reinvent the wheel? Trying to put sheep out of business? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2FX9rviEhw

    -Randy

  3. easy display by recharged95 · · Score: 2, Funny

    For the 1st physical prototype, they display a waterfall.

    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.

  4. Oh The Horror by VorpalRodent · · Score: 4, Funny

    This will be utterly destroyed by an angry mob the first time it gets hacked to display Goatse. Imagine not just disgusting a single person, but an entire football stadium.

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    Take it to the limit, everybody to the limit, come on, everybody fhqwhgads.
  5. Re:Deliciously exciting?! by Spazntwich · · Score: 2, 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.