Videos about Claytronics

Miscellanous videos about different aspects of claytroncs are posted here. Most recent at the top.

• Ensemble motion (Version 8) where three catoms change the shape of the ensemble. (40MB) [3/2007]
• One Planar catom (Version 8) moving back and forth around two others (which are actively holding each other together). (4MB) [1/2007]
• Planar Catoms moving around each other demonstrated at IDF Version 7 of planar catoms (4MB) [9/2006]
• Simulation of a group of catoms moving towards a goal using the distributed centeroid estimator and connectivity estimator. (16MB) [9/2006]
• Demonstration of using electrostatics as a latching mechanism. 1 cube moving another cube. (7MB) [8/2006]
• An over the top “future ad” for programmable matter as a CAD tool was put together by the ETC. (68MB) (Play with sound on) [2006]
• Above video without sound and much smaller. [2006]
• A small slice of the above video slowed.slice-of-cardesign.avi (<1 MB, no sound, low quality) [2006]
• Video showing simulations of hole motion. Spelling out intel and Spelling out darpa [2005].
• The planar catoms (V4) moving back and forth. (2MB) [2/2005]
• A small video demonstrating how changing the shape of an antenna can change its performance. antenna demo (6MB) [2005]
• The first test of two catoms moving with only 3 magnets each. two planar catoms ticking back and forth (2MB)[8/2004].
• Simulation of 2D catoms finding other catoms [2004]
• Simulation of distributed localization using 2D catoms [2004]
• Simulation of 3D catoms finding other catoms [2004]

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