{"id":19147,"date":"2015-11-07T14:47:25","date_gmt":"2015-11-07T22:47:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/11\/bitdrones-interactive-quadcopters-allow-for-programmable-matter-explorations"},"modified":"2017-04-24T23:48:49","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T06:48:49","slug":"bitdrones-interactive-quadcopters-allow-for-programmable-matter-explorations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/11\/bitdrones-interactive-quadcopters-allow-for-programmable-matter-explorations","title":{"rendered":"Bitdrones: Interactive quadcopters allow for \u2018programmable matter\u2019 explorations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hHBYMWc3ux8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><b>Could an interactive swarm of flying \u201c3D pixels\u201d (voxels) allow users to explore virtual 3D information by interacting with physical self-levitating building blocks? (credit: Roel Vertegaal)<\/b><\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ll find out Monday, Nov. 9, when Canadian <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hml.queensu.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\">Queen\u2019s University\u2019s Human Media Lab<\/a> professor <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hml.queensu.ca\/people\/roelvertegaal\" target=\"_blank\">Roel Vertegaal<\/a> and his students will unleash their \u201cBitDrones\u201d at the <a href=\"http:\/\/uist.acm.org\/uist2015\/about\" target=\"_blank\">ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology<\/a> in Charlotte, North Carolina.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Programmable matter<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Vertegaal believes his BitDrones invention is the first step towards creating interactive self-levitating programmable matter \u2014 materials capable of changing their 3D shape in a programmable fashion, using swarms of tiny quadcopters. Possible applications: real-reality 3D modeling, gaming, molecular modeling, medical imaging, robotics, and online information visualization.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kurzweilai.net\/bitdrones-interactive-quadcopters-allow-for-programmable-matter-explorations\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Could an interactive swarm of flying \u201c3D pixels\u201d (voxels) allow users to explore virtual 3D information by interacting with physical self-levitating building blocks? (credit: Roel Vertegaal) We\u2019ll find out Monday, Nov. 9, when Canadian Queen\u2019s University\u2019s Human Media Lab professor Roel Vertegaal and his students will unleash their \u201cBitDrones\u201d at the ACM Symposium on User [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":387,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1635,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-materials","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/387"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19147"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19147\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45318,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19147\/revisions\/45318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}