Flying, flocking ultralight Linux boxes

A flock of flying Linux servers powered by Gumstix computers (tiny embedded computers the size of a stick of gum) is being developed by researchers at the University of Essex. It will fly in automated flocking formations.

PhD candidate Renzo de Nardi recently completed a prototype UltraSwarm device, a craft the project believes to be the smallest flying web server in the world. Once the whole flock has been completed, the onboard computers will be configured as a Piconet (a network of devices connected in an ad hoc manner via Bluetooth), "with the master on the arena-based computer system," Hollands says.

Link (via Futurismic)