Comments on: 64 Synchronizing Fireflies

By: Bill

Bill — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 00:41:14 +0000

Video’s are nice but the project website is down :(

By: Scarhawk

Scarhawk — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 20:48:28 +0000

How far apart can the modules be and still synchronize? I’d love to cover a ceiling with these, but $10 per square inch is a bit much. $2 per square foot is more like it.

By: Mono

Mono — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 12:01:29 +0000

david, in hopes that your kidding i quote the words of mj from that one southpark episode… “nooooo, thats ignorant. your being ignorant”

…pottery, shoelaces, food network!
humans have achieved so much!
not to mention were currently working on global climate destabilization (which, i might add, we are way ahead of schedule on)

btw, 4 billion years to become a smart-ass is a long time. you shoulda got in the “created by god” line… you coulda been mockin other peoples hard work and progress in less than a week ;p

much love

and about these fireflies, is there anyway to make stoplights sync up this effectively. i mean, as soon as the one im at turns green, the light a block in front of me turns red… damn the government.

By: David

David — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 10:32:33 +0000

Four billion years of evolution and this is what life on Earth achieved. Sigh…

Well; back to the round-the-clock coverage of the death of Michael Jackson.

By: DanAdamKOF

DanAdamKOF — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 10:18:03 +0000

So pretty
I’d love to see a screensaver like this :)

By: cyrozap

cyrozap — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 02:51:12 +0000

A shutdown command should be programmed in incase they become sentient. :)

By: bubbaholy

bubbaholy — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 02:25:56 +0000

Cool. Now put them on wheels and give them some sort of behaviours that respond to light. :) I want to try that at least.

By: jim slipper

jim slipper — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 01:44:08 +0000

this is a repost

By: cyanide

cyanide — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 00:59:39 +0000

AHHH SKYNET

By: timour

timour — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 23:53:54 +0000

good, that’s true Cybernetics like defined by Norbert Wiener
i’ll start mine right now,
but i will add some audio output on each, like a tone with a frequency dependent on the time error.
I think also at uploading the firmware with ir through the phototransistor.

By: Satiagraha

Satiagraha — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 23:49:53 +0000

I’ve always seen these in a grid configuration. It’s really cool to watch them as a strip.

Great, now I want to make some fireflies :)

By: animefruit

animefruit — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 23:46:27 +0000

this is off topic, but MJ you will be missed. this is a pretty cool project also. i tried making something like this years ago in highschool.

By: faviomj

faviomj — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 23:15:51 +0000

Pretty nice