Spaxels - Ars Electronica Quadcopter Swarm
summary
A demonstration of Spaxels: LED-equipped quadcopters used as flying pixels, with a Real Time Lighting Paint Video System that maps animations to GPS waypoints and uses long-exposure photography to create 3D light-forms. Covers the hardware and software stack, formation planning (including vehicle counts for logos), communications and fail-safes, and evaluation of system robustness to wind and timing errors during real flights.
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chapters (8)
- 0:00Spaxels project intro
- 3:11Technical challenges
- 7:35Communication system
- 11:51Live shows & demos
- 16:15Quadcopter swarm design
- 20:13Interactive elements
- 23:41Software safety
- 26:55Summary & outlook
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