
From David Ackley, Liquidware, and Illuminato Labs comes the Illuminato X Machina project -
It’s a small “motherboard cell” that can interchangeably link and connect up to other cells, either rightside up or upside down, to adaptively route packets and power to its neighbors, like a grid of biologic cells, passing nutrients and resources to their neighbors. Also, each board can program its neighbors using a dynamic bucket-passing bootloader that allows any given cell in the grid to over-ride or re-program neighbors.An exciting platform for physical computing - definitely be interesting to see how folks put it to use. Read more over @ Liquidware Antipaso.
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Each cell runs a 72 MHz ARM processor with 56 digital I/O pins, and the ability to accept power from any one of its 4 edges. This means that the cellular grid can expand in any direction, and the reversible interconnections mean it can grow like a crystal in any orientation.





































Seems similar to the Inmos Transputer from the 80's (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transputer). A little faster, a little more memory, and cool LEDs. Cheaper. Not so sure about the programming system, and how it compares to Occam. Probably not very well.
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