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PhD candidate Renzo de Nardi recently completed a prototype UltraSwarm device, a craft the project believes to be the smallest flying web server in the world. Once the whole flock has been completed, the onboard computers will be configured as a Piconet (a network of devices connected in an ad hoc manner via Bluetooth), "with the master on the arena-based computer system," Hollands says.
[linuxdevices.com...]
The pic is worth a look - bizarre seeing a web server mounted inside a radio controlled helicopter, feeding an image back to the website from it's on-board cam...
The technology was actually devised as a means of getting small models to fly in a flocking formation, using BlueTooth as the communication means, while simultaneously doing Linux cluster calculations!
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.
Hmmmm... brings whole new meaning to the word "Spyware" ;-)
TJ
