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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. Links to project site and video by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    project site: http://senseable.mit.edu/flyfire/

    video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CnEN9B18v6Q

  2. Re:Great for sports! by ae1294 · · Score: 2, 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.

  3. Re:Ah, the ethusiasm of youth by amirulbahr · · Score: 2, Informative

    Accurate submeter 3D positioning is quite hard.

    Hard but solved.