Flyfire

[Luminapolis]

One of the favorites of Luminapolis Channel

[Nielssonnich]

Where can I buy a couple of these ?

[elpresidio]

The coordinated sync idea will spawn greater ideas. The next level will be to coordinated nanobots that will go inside a body and fix people's inside up.

[Prytanus]

Now imagine that instead of light, each chopper contains a remote controlled detonator and a grenade...

Swarm warfare has arrived.

Thank you MIT.

[SesaayKimei395]

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[JeronemoTV]

Very nice concept, and nicely presented - But ... A firefly may need a wind free environment to survive

[threes4luck]

We'll have holograms in about 10 years (hell we have them now), but you can't carry a projector with you everywhere so I suppose these will be just as commonplace.

I still see them as being more for entertainment, and decoration though.

[gespertino]

spy drones. And will kill us all. :p

[juliobenavidez]

Gracias por la info

[hongyi444]

our senior design class is doing something kind of like that... using IR leds, and phototransistors.

[srylar]

3 thoughts: 1) the video looks computer generated not like an actual proof of concept 2) this is awesome 3) I WOULD RATHER SEE THIS THAN FIREWORKS ON 4th of JULY

[markploch]

That is faked. Those "mini copters" are impossible to control for seconds at a time.

FAKE!

[okihimus]

This would be awesome at a rave or concert.

[BaRNioNLaiN]

From what I read in the comments, it would seem like youtube is full of talented engineers and MIT is just a bunch of naïve engineer wannabes...

I'm glad that, from what I know, the situation is EXACTLY the opposite.

[brennant74]

Estos serán los fuegos artificiales del futuro que no contaminan.

[brennant74]

These are the artificial fires of the future with zero emissions

[BigSplitter]

Hmm, would like to see this in the daylight..

Great vid though!!

Regards,

BS

[sonicsn4ke]

No that is some unnecessary piece of...

yes, i am a lover of many things like laser keyboard (i own one) or magnetic "flying" globes for a living room. But THAT idea is just stupid, it`s expensive, i cant imagine that the resolution is going to be any good, (any good = something like 1600x1080), and what if someone hits thoose flying motor things accidently? it`s just unnecessary... some kind of laser projection in free space would be a better idea.

[therianet]

do they realize that training bees with leds attached is more realistic idea than this ? I mean MIT what happen to you

[MAMABEIKER]

JA JA JA JA JA !!!!! IDIOT PROJET !!!!

[slitor]

Imagine what we can do when we get micromachines...nanobots to do this.

[slitor]

Thats ONE KICK ASS DEMO PLATFORM!

[capo689]

hmm.. not possible... the down draft from 100s of units would prevent any actual control. need to find another method of propulsion/flying... or possible a consistent updraft and the units could harness or release air to control direction or altitude... still damn hard.

[ShinjuKogawa]

Suitable for this?

---

Mark 13:22 (New International Version)

22For false Christs and false prophets will appear and perform signs and miracles to deceive the elect—if that were possible.

[nbaietti]

ATCHOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!! ...ops!

[ercost60]

Showing a dozen real units operating as you promise will silence these naysayers. Let's see it!

[metalopig]

I'm trying to grasp what kind of computing power is needed for this to work.. anybody can inform me?

[cpufightclub]

Something similar to the 12 core processor from AMD.

[Velet66]

Yet another amazing concept technology that will inevitably be SANDBAGGED by the heads at MIT, to holdout for profit.

So i most sincerely off my preemptive condolences and a fond farewell. You will be missed.

[sugardaddylifestyle]

You guys at MIT have nothing better to do!!!

[omgwtfpwnzbbq]

wait for fuckin add overhead !

[benfortney]

Too many nay sayers on this thread, even though concept to product will be tough. The concept itself is incredible. As an educational tool this could be intense. Immersive graphs, diagrams... imagine learning biology with this!

Keep it coming.

[matheusrgoularte]

name of the song please :)

[mairug]

jabardasti ka

[shuairan]

ok they got this micro-copters, but the mona lisa was just a simulation of this idea, because they are still working on it, right?

[9ve]

this is nothing more than a waste of time

[notraxz]

wtf is this?

[Brazucaman]

loolypop? lolycopter?

[MeusOrsa]

Imagine the noise your future monitor will make.

[simnchase]

ahhhh watch out if the wind blows haha

[guilleriff]

Publicity in our sky?? If this tecnology becomes in publicity, then it sucks. Hope not.

[liesder]

guilleriff if this technology comes to publicity then human kind will be lost forever!

[zedzero01]

Looks like Trapcode Form to me.

Nice concept though.

[darkvvulf]

Ah pity, when I first saw this I thought that it was them actually in use.

[tronjapon]

Good job!

Good dream!

Romantic conception!

[420choky]

awesome project no matter what anyone says ..

takes 3d to a new level

[eljuandarien]

This can substitute fireworks and help ecology.

[piratk]

Some problems in the video: The flies will not be able to be that close to each other. They will always interfere with each other, and there is a problem with battery time here. Will there be substitutes, waiting stand by near by?

[grudan]

As PopeKurt and SolaceAvatar say, can we see a video of any of this actually working? It's a neat idea, but it would also be good to see how much exists now and how much is future vision. (Nice for a university to be clearer on what is fact and what is vaporware.)

[pupsmaschine]

Huh? Pretty lame CG represtentation. MoGraph? Zzz.....

[seniorteam]

Great idea. For communication or art projects.

[PopeKurt]

That all looked like a computer simulation of what it would look like. Are there any videos of the actual helis in action and control room?

[Mrxb0x]

fake and gay

[lenon3000]

ja ja ja ja !!!!!

[MAMABEIKER]

STUPID AND IDIOT PROYECT !!!!

[Pablopnp]

Ohhh, sorry, the genius of MamaASSSSholdd don't like.. jajaj.. fucking idiot.

[SolaceAvatar]

Are there any videos of this actually working? And wouldn't thousands of tiny copters stacked one above the other make it really hard for them to all stay up and in formation? Plus, unless it was very bright in a very dark room you'd notice the propellers a lot more than the LED's.

[sevenyearsago]

amazing!

[youtubasoarus]

I hope this fails miserably. I don't need advertizements flying into my face.

[rodRioNee]

HAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!lol

[ImaPirate1111]

WHY WE HAVE KIDS TO FEED

[PlasticCoffee]

The new type of "firework"

[Turkish42]

pics or it diddent happend..

[soundsliketruck]

UFO wackos will have a new source of undeniable proof.

[webaward]

amazing if they pull it off hey anything's 'possible

[elochka00]

"wow" -from a purely engineering perspective.

[slayer641]

interesting idea.

[ohteekay]

so... what purpose does this serve?

[hispaniccheese]

honestly i dnt have a clue and i dnt think any one else does

[JoTheVeteran]

So it's a concept monitor of sorts.

But an actual application?

On the top of my head, this thing would need a huge super computer just to calculate the precise position that each mini helicopter/pixel would have to be at any given time, the x-y-z relative position from each-other and absolute position from the ground by taking into account changes in air pressure and making adjustments when needed.

Besides,it wouldn't be cost/energy effective and thus not feasible at all, not that way at least.

[Sabored]

Yes,... a huge super computer indeed,...

[monoham1]

what kind of transister would this supercomputer use? not the 42nm processes in most computers today... maby cathode tubes??

xyz isnt that hard, its been done in volumes larger than a few million ponts in space since the 90s in video games which ran off of 10um processes or bigger

in ragards to points wind etc, air traffic control computers take in far more info than this needs and are just a few linked server racks cobbled togeather

[JoTheVeteran]

You really don't get my point at all. I didn't say it's impossible, I said it's not efficient, at least not with that kind of technology they are proposing. As a part of a really expensive demonstration, like a concert, sure it can be done, but why do it, when for example lassers are much easier to use?

And about CPU power, no, cathod tubes wouldn't work obviously, but neither would the strongest commercial CPU also. It would need and I quote myself "a huge supercomputer".

[monoham1]

it would need "and i quote myself" at worst 'a few... server racks cobbled togeather'

think of millinos of indiviual light beams rendered in real time in a 3d environment being already done last year and you get the idea

wind doesnt matter, these are revolutionary coz theyre individually cheap(ish) and arent affected by minor things like tht

also, a. its only art b. its not like model helicopters or gyroscopes are expensive or anything

do you know what a gyroscope does? esp in relation 2 flight

[JoTheVeteran]

So you'd need "a few... server racks" AKA a SUPERCOMPUTER and about 800.000 gyros, motors, circuits for a resolution as low as 1024x768 and x 3 that amount for color LEDs. You'd also need, a huge transmitter to "speak" to each pixel individually, talking about huge bandwidth need here

Sure! That sounds feasible... and inexpensive! Why haven't they done that already? I am shocked! :O

But with comments like

"wind doesnt matter" and "do you know what a gyro does"... Nothing more to say, seriously.

[rjcanadadotca]

There is no 'they'...

[JoTheVeteran]

But there is! :o

[monoham1]

oh ic, well yes, to manufacture a million pixels it would need some sory of assembaly line, but the computations are well within the teraFLOP next years computers will be able to handle... anyway id like to see how this demo works out first with a few dozen let alone a million

but if you think about it the only place that big a screen is meaningfull is a multi-millian dollar football stadium display right? see where im going?

[JoTheVeteran]

That's why they still using big LEDs monitors (no idea how these lamps are called) in stadiums and not some kinda crazy ass super holographic-phaser-anti-gravit­y-mass effect awesome technology. Because it's not feasible yet, or not affordable. YES! NOT AFFORDABLE even by such an establishment. Just look at the numbers, it just makes sense!

I any case we could argue forever about this idea.. it's just that from my prospective... i just not seeing it happening that way, plain and simple.

[monoham1]

theyre not using these coz they dont exist yet not coz theyre too expensive (which they may well be) still 10 years off until this will be in every supermarket (if its not supersceeded by something better)

[wolffear]

@monoham1 stfu plz, I appreciate your insight and ideas about this product, but it's use is far from what your thinking. You clearly don't understand the technology as most on this vid thread have no idea wtf they are even talking about

[Velet66]

@JoTheVeteran

LOL "lasers" do not compare to the awesomeness of you own color changing , shape shifting electric cloud.

[JoTheVeteran]

And golden toilets probably feel allot better than those porcelain ones, but you can't have that now, can you?

[n3rdbear]

Now the government will have a way to deny alien UFO sightings. They will just say it's a bunch to little coaxial helicopters that they saw.

[goodgoodgoodful]

real hologram will be much practical than this

[monoham1]

but what if they shrunk them down to the size of inscets or smaller?

[SocksOfNarnia]

wouldn't it be awfully difficult to shrink them and still be able to synchronize them? but that would be pretty impressive.

[justinjustin18]

I've seen this all before.

THE SWARM WILL BECOME INTELLIGENT AND REBEL AGAINST ITS CREATORS AND ALL OF HUMANITY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! IT IS WRITTEN IN PROPHECY HOW MAN BECOMES THE ARCHITECT OF HIS OWN DEMISE BUAHAHAHAHA

[kyledude120]

won't any wind just mess it all up?

[comedyworks5]

dude im drunk and high and no joke im flipping out

[Greekmustard666]

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAhA

[TbaginANDBuck]

@comedyworks5 I doubt it.

[Classic298]

cool

[julinmorgan]

u could just get 2048x1080 and make a full hd video with it. although to sync 2mi of those must be kinda hard

[painet1776]

I guess this is cool... until one of them runs out of battery and drops on your head.

[Keldorik]

@painet1776

Probably use a kinetic battery, one that's recharged by motion. Then that sort of thing won't happen.

[0Sprotret]

Giving out a ps3 info on video

/watch?v=a1kftu4ftO8

Or click on my channel to view it.

[ClearViewFields]

I'm glad the majority of the commenters to this video know this is conceptual. Although this is a good idea, it would be nice to see more schools producing videos like this more often.

[RadioActiveAzns]

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[TrojanDude26]

seems intriguing. may be hard to control and manipulate but would love to see it come to life.

[sxyTuXeDoZ]

cool next we can hover one of these on top of enemies for ez war

[skinnysticks123]

the wings would get in the way, won't they?

[Meglo56]

Lol. watch APPLE bring this out in the next 2 years :P

[chikifree]

iflyingthingythatmakescoolpict­uresintheair

[JJJ010101]

I'm pretty sure the limitations are huge

[Randomologist]

doing this in the air is impractical. using for example, water and a sphere with a light that can be controled with idk, a radio signal with neutral buoyancy (can easily be accomplished with air bubbles and plastic?) and can move up and down through water by adding or removing water like what a submarine normally does or just keep a small motorized fan. yea.... so much easier. but in the end... its pointless. -_-

fun idea, but it wont stop the ozone from disappearing or stop global warming.

[Aknargmort]

hehe real 3d movie for once

[sonotnews]

Debra Medina finally get ahead !!!

watch?v=vQFUamDAlrE

Spread the word

[backoswacko10]

sounds like a waste of money...

[Zcarbon]

cool and absolutely worth it

[terbio]

Cool.

Who knows 2025?

[sadfadsfdfs]

FUCK I HATE SCIENCE

[ImaPirate1111]

This will definitely stop global warming.

[UniversalHere]

hey i heard it might patch up that hole in the whats it called...o yea ozone layer

[TheAustinBorkenhagen]

that would be cool. but completely pointless.

[scoota111]

not at all!

Think about light shows for bands, or anything involving a crowd.

It definitely has a use for advertising and marketing, but in today's economy I think it would be difficult to implement due to costs.

[83679]

cool but absolutly pointless

[Ganxiba]

this is very beneficial.

[alsadeg111222]

haha

watch this

/watch?v=CqE54NbbgpM

[BrightSide2k]

What about all the batteries? Don't see how this would work when you have downdraft from the rotors.

[imobMB]

one answer... someones got nothing better to do

[vana6427]

one question . . . why?

[itsonthetab]

One word . . . Ability.

[carl4766]

send them over roswell.

[helloBL33]

this is too much work, might as well just make a giant grid with almost invisible wire connecting to those light bulbs that can move across the string remotely. -____- makes the same effect

[BorisQuan]

good point

[visualguerillaFILMs]

WOW!! great work!!

-

[ImRichRu]

just one problem... the downdraft from all the things would be impossible to calculate

[JasonBunston]

What happens when a cascading series of collisions occur? Won't you lose patches of the "screen"?

[rab2591]

I think this is a great step in the right direction for multi-media - granted, this particular idea is very accident/problem prone, but so was the first television or lightbulb. It'll be interesting to see where this goes.

[josekiamora]

utopia...keep on dreaming...

[mostliberal]

They'll run out of battery, and they won't work outside because of chaotic wind which would sweep them up. Wouldn't it be simpler to dangle these balls of light on an optic fiber cable, which transmits light? Or a cable providing electricity? If they dangle people can still pass through. Outside the wind would still affect it though (unless the ropes are heavy).

[lmnzone]

now if only they teach those robots to attract and eat mosquitoes ....

[kimwim]

good book, i enjoyed it.

[renatovcs]

só faltou mostra funcionando!

=P

[stoddcrew]

yeah, the only problem is when you walk into a dark room with hundreds of little flying robots and don't know what your doing it'll feel like theirs hundreds of mouse traps going off in mid air

[kristiankettner]

Hmmm this video was made in After Effects with the trapcode plugin FORM, Would like to se a real world test. :-)

[viOlatorBr]

impacts are inevitable, and movements cant be so squared. With this small helicopters movements are smooth.

[ZeroFLM]

That's an remarquable idea but there is to my opinion two major problems :

1/ the noise of 500 small fast-revving propellers

2/ the energy consumption of them little fellas

[LarkinVain]

I think those are minor problems compared to the problem the effect wind will have on these tiny fellas.

[moyxx030]

Smells too much like Snow Crash, hah.

[hughtub]

Perhaps with nano-gineered 'copters in a few decades, they could create 3D holograms like Star Wars.

[times9]

lol id like to see this for real,but i see it being a real mess cause the copters arnt even that stable and then to run alot of them in sync,only in CG lol

[Brantoc]

Would be a very interesting project to work on.. GL.. Looks like it will be about 50% work and 50% fun.. Best kind of projects!!