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TheWraith

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4. Also, they won't be able to fly very far.

Reply to tridim (Reply #3)

Wed Feb 1, 2012, 05:01 PM

Feb 2012

Hovering like that is going to take a lot of power, and I doubt even the densest lithium-ion battery could keep those things going for more than fifteen minutes or so.

And every added bit of weight, such as a camera, is going to reduce that.

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A Swarm of Nano Quadrotors--WHOA! [View all] morningfog Feb 2012 OP

Neat! tridim Feb 2012 #1

I'm thinking more likely they're controlled by a central computer. TheWraith Feb 2012 #5

If you watch closely they self-correct individually. tridim Feb 2012 #6

Oh, fuck. cliffordu Feb 2012 #2

Except they can be stopped with a 10 dollar fish net. tridim Feb 2012 #3

Also, they won't be able to fly very far. TheWraith Feb 2012 #4

one camera on the "mothership" the rest are just cliffordu Feb 2012 #8

Unless there are 25,000 of them coming from 360 degrees..... cliffordu Feb 2012 #7

Shit - reminds me of the "eye identification" spiders in "Minority Report". HopeHoops Feb 2012 #9

Why when I watch this video do I think of gnats? KansDem Feb 2012 #10

Cool! I want a few. Then and again how does this work??? wandy Feb 2012 #11

Note the multiple video cameras surrouding the lab.. tridim Feb 2012 #12