Formica Swarm Robot Kits

Mon, 29 Dec 2008 19:07:13 +0000

Fornicating Formica robots

I gave the talk on the Formica project; thanks to all who watched. We had not realised the demand for kits. We started a mailing list at the end, but too late! So if you’re interested, please email me. If demand is sufficiently high we’ll sort something out. More information is available at:

http://warrantyvoidifremoved.com/formica

Formica: a swarm of robots

Sat, 27 Dec 2008 13:09:04 +0000

Imagine a swarm of small insect-like robots crawling around at the Congress (YouTube video). At least, about 20 of them will do so on stage in hall 3 on day 2 at 18:30. They are part of Formica, an open-source hard and software project about very affordable small robots initiated by a group of students from Southampton University. One of them, Jeff Gough, has brought his robot farm here. His hands-on approach combines electronics, mechanics and art and since it is completely open, everybody is invited to participate and produce more crawling robots.

robotics on CCC Event Blog

Formica Swarm Robot Kits

Formica: a swarm of robots