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| So DARPA has come up with a seriously cool new autonomous robot that'll provide constant WiFi coverage in Urban Warfare environments. These little buggers are "disposable" and will re-arrange themselves to ensure the coverage remains a connected blanket. http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/robots/darpas-landroids-to-autonomously-cover-areas-with-wi+fi-269293.php 2 Cents anyone? |
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| Where can I buy them, and who do I have to kill? | |||||
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| I wonder how much it'd cost, and how difficult it'd actually be to produce such an item. Where can you buy them? Who do you have to kill? Hmm... I think both answers involve some DARPA type people - so probably difficult to do either ;-) |
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| Well, you'd need a moving chassy to blanket a given area, probably just a solar panel on a remote control car. Then you need a router, a control unit, and an I/O transmitter with a side-link to the control unit. You'd probably need a neural net running back at the base to organize unit movement. Hmmm... ants are fairly good at blanet-searching an area - I wonder if you could base your control scheme on them. A direct upload is out of question, of course, for another few years at least, but I'm sure a high-level emulation would do the job quite nicely. Oh, and your going to need a hell of a T1 line back at home to handle all of the data these things are going to be producing. |
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| Just realozed that my above post is a tad ambiguous. To blanket, say, your neighborhood, you'll need a couple of dozen of these things, and the fatality rate will likely be high, unless you train the neural net to avoid cars and toddlers. |
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| Cool stuff, but I'm waiting for smart dust. | |||||
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| Utility fog FTW. | |||||
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QuantumBeep says |
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| Smart dust, utility fog, what ever. What we really need is... man what there's this big fucking slinky outside my window OH MY GOD |
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| For the T1 line you could use the inflatable satellite dish. | |||||
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| if they provide allover "blanket" coverage, if they couldnt cover all their area, would they overload anyway??? | |||||
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| How soon are they going to be available?And for how much..The idea looks pretty interesting!!!! | |||||
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| one grandmother for sale, one fine old grandmother for sale, funds go to wifibot. a dollar anyone? two dollars? a quarter? i'll toss in a grandfather too! they sing and dance! do i hear a dollar? |
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| I don't think they're for civilian use Anna. However, as I said, it wouldn't be all that difficult to homebrew an equivalent. |
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