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Title: Celular grid motherboard(s) - Iluminato X Machina
Post by: Ro-Bot-X on August 19, 2009, 03:54:03 PM
I just saw this on Arduino forum, it's unbelievable... Take a look yourselves, I can't even describe it...

(http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_pGsJFsc5Buc/Sowhi_FYttI/AAAAAAAAATU/Tphl-t3diSo/s400/Jumpstart+Autosensing+Powergrid+NCellular+Coupled.png)

And here is the link:
http://antipastohw.blogspot.com/2009/08/introducing-illuminato-x-machina.html (http://antipastohw.blogspot.com/2009/08/introducing-illuminato-x-machina.html)

And on the Wired:
http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2009/08/modular-motherboard/ (http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2009/08/modular-motherboard/)
Title: Re: Celular grid motherboard(s) - Iluminato X Machina
Post by: SmAsH on August 19, 2009, 04:09:11 PM
. . .

what! that is so amazing! damn these kids are good!
Title: Re: Celular grid motherboard(s) - Iluminato X Machina
Post by: Razor Concepts on August 19, 2009, 05:22:54 PM
Expensive! But I like how they put cool leds on all of their products  :)
Title: Re: Celular grid motherboard(s) - Iluminato X Machina
Post by: Ro-Bot-X on August 19, 2009, 06:51:51 PM
Expensive! But I like how they put cool leds on all of their products  :)

Well, one cell is $56.89. Not that expensive for a 72MHz ARM, compared to Arduino Mega for instance. Of course, if you want to get cellular... it needs a hefty budget.

More info here:
http://www.liquidware.com/shop/show/IXM/Illuminato+X+Machina (http://www.liquidware.com/shop/show/IXM/Illuminato+X+Machina)
Title: Re: Celular grid motherboard(s) - Iluminato X Machina
Post by: Asellith on August 20, 2009, 12:05:29 PM
So this is a quote from the blog post about it....

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It’s what you’d expect if Complex Adaptive Systems met Open Source Hardware at a bar, drank too much and had a love child that was raised on Physical Computing child support in the suburbs of Modular Electronics. Then one day that child spontaneously cloned itself hundreds of times, and decided to hold hands with all of its clone siblings so that it could play a crazy N^2 O*log(O) game of telephone.

just thought that was worth passing on :)
Title: Re: Celular grid motherboard(s) - Iluminato X Machina
Post by: Finnik on August 21, 2009, 06:27:00 AM
Wow! That's all I have to say... just have to watch out that they don't gather too many in one place and they start replicating themselves ;D