also, this
http://people.artcenter.edu/~berk/alavs/<
http://people.artcenter.edu/%7Eberk/alavs/>would
be cool for SFe Design Week.
January 25, 2006 Autonomous Light-Air Vessels 06:34 PM inflatable
<
http://www.we-make-money-not-art.com/archives/cat_inflatable.php>
ALAVs <
http://people.artcenter.edu/%7Eberk/alavs/>, by Jed Berk and Nikhil
Mitter, are 3 flocking blimps (Bubba, Flipper, and Habib) which continuously
search for networked activities in their environment. Each piece of
information they pick up from the networked environment triggers certain
actions like: propelling the vessel, transmitting a sound, lighting blue or
red.
[image: alone_1.jpg] [image: feeding_1.jpg]
Each ALAV has little lights that indicate its hunger level. Blue means
hungry. Red means full. People can "feed" the blimp by holding out a
plant-like structure to it. The embedded sensor transmits info to the ALAV
(successful feeding makes the plant vibrate.) The AVAL quickly "digests" the
information and then moves on.
Due to their unpredictable roaming behavior, ALAVs might occasionally stray
from the flock. However, an ALAV cannot remain far away for long for it is
constantly seeking out companionship. They find this via communication with
their outside environment (mobile phones, laptops, sensors, other ALAVs.)
This information in turn helps them make decisions, choosing directions to
propel into. Besides, when an ALAV strays too far away for too long, its
flock calls out to it with an animal-like chirp, or calling sound.
The ALAV exhibit behaviors that relate to semi-domesticated animals (through
their calling sounds, and the way they nudge people.)
The importance of this system is about *using the technology's
unpredictability and limitations to the advantage of the design*.
PDF <
http://people.artcenter.edu/%7Evanallen/ecology/ALAV.pdf>of the project
and plenty of videos <
http://people.artcenter.edu/%7Eberk/alavs/#videos>.
Via the new ecology of
things<
http://people.artcenter.edu/%7Evanallen/ecology/><
del.icious <
http://del.icio.us/url/6c483207c8e949d198a6159e2db68c7e>.
Related: Powermoon<
http://www.we-make-money-not-art.com/archives/007755.php>,
the Mascarillons <
http://www.we-make-money-not-art.com/archives/007440.php>.
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"You never change things by fighting the existing reality.
To change something, build a new model that makes the
existing model obsolete."
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