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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. Deliciously exciting?! by kaizendojo · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Sounds scary to me... Sounds more like we'll be followed by 'intelligent billboards'!

    1. Re:Deliciously exciting?! by jhoegl · · Score: 3, Insightful

      Nothin' a bb gun wont cure.

  2. Great for sports! by musicalmicah · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Looks like it would be amazing for sports stadiums. It could even deliver crowd-hyping mascots to various sections of the stadium. I wonder how the power source and recharging issue would be handled, though.

  3. 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

  4. You forgot 'annoying as f**k' by northernfrights · · Score: 3, Insightful

    "It sounds deliciously exciting and challenging"

    Yeah, because a 300ft coke ad hovering in the sky above my house is going to be exhilarating...

  5. 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.

    --
    Take it to the limit, everybody to the limit, come on, everybody fhqwhgads.