Friday, November 10, 2006

Flying webservers

Research is amazing !! Researching the hardware platform used in my final year project and came across this.

Picture yourself outside drinking your coffee when suddenly the air is full of small buzzing critters. Its not killer bees but the flying gridswarm.

Image a combination of Wireless sensor networks and black hawk down. A multiltude of small autonomous flying vehicles that are able to function as a mobile grid computer.



Currently the university of Essex is researching this. Using miniature helicopters from proxflier and gumsitx as the processor. Their prototype is apparently the smallest flying webserver in the world (but come to think of it I don't know of any flying webservers large or small) Take a look at the homepage

Anyway I think this deserves a mention as its super rad. It's also in a similar field as my current research so that's even better.

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