Autonomous Light Air Vehicles

Well these are fun. They are small powered blimps that exhibit flocking behavior.

They “feed” on network activity from each other, from cell phones, and from purpose built “plants”.

  • If they have not had any activity for few minutes they become “hungry” and they will respond to people with small feeder “plants” until they are full again.
  • During feeding the electonic plant in the person’s hand vibrates to simulate hand feeding.
  • The three ALAVs also flock by emitting signals if they have wandered off from their companions.

Interesting behaviors seem to emerge. All in all a fun and informative project around basic animal behavior. Ya gotta start somewhere.