Smart Carpets

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Wooden carpets/rugs etc. Not dissimilar in mechanics to the little robot thing I was going on about over here.

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Quite good really – that’s got to be incredibly useful for something. Other than rugs I mean. Reminds me a bit of this thing I saw the other day being developed by DARPA

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Programmable matter etc. Intel had something to do with it as well.


2 Comments » for Smart Carpets
  1. The design of this is terribly exciting. It reminds me… oh, I remember of what, it reminds me of the olden metal diamond shapes that used to be fiddled with on a round magnet disk. Do you recall those? I think they were even called fiddles? Got it! Fiddle with a CRDL!
    http://www.sloperama.com/images/JanSui44s.jpg

    The hours I spent with this!

  2. admin says:

    I accidentally bought about a 100 tiny neo magnets recently. They’re really cool – amazingly strong. You can do things like make 3mm wide, 30cm high towers – kindof gravity defying things.