Mothership plans
Ray rocks. He’s come up with some plans for the mothership.
Our Wiki and Source Code is Open to the World
All 
us SWARMies are happy to announce that we have made our wiki and our source code available to the world! We are making this available in the spirit of progress and sharing. Go ahead, take a look under the hood!
We’ve licensed the entire project under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0” license. Check our license page for more information.
The source code is the software that controls the orbs, written in Python, C, Java, bailing wire and what not. If you’d like to work on the code (or any aspect of our project), join our mailing list and introduce yourself. We welcome new members.
The wiki is a discussion space, information and documentation repository for the project.
Note that we had initially released the project under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license but changed that shortly after.
SWARM is Open Source
We are all very happy to say that we have made the entire SWARM project open source! We have licensed everything under the “Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0” license.
In brief, this means you can use our research, implementations, software, blueprints, ideas, technology, firmware, board designs… anything you want… as long as you give us a shout-out and aren’t trying to make money off us.
If yours is a commercial work and you want to use our stuff, we urge you to contact us. If your project is interesting, we’re quite likely to grant you a full license to our work.
Imagine making your own SWARMania, standing on the shoulders of geeks!
Find out more about the particulars of licensing on our wiki.
Note that we had initially released the project under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license but changed that shortly after.
Issues with the shell
This past Saturday we got the prototype rolling around on the ground. We ran into some issues.
It’s all fixable stuff. We’ll have to reinforce and redesign the shell.
For the long form from Mike, look below:
1. The shell is buckling severely. This is occuring in the spans between the welds (rather than at the welds.) And it has a shape more consistant with distributed forces parallel to the surface (sideways Read more »
Baby’s First Roll
Here’s video of our baby’s first ste…roll!
Find this and other videos on The Rotor Show on blip.tv
Under its own power
We now have an orb that runs under its own power!
Happy Orb Day!
Congratulations SWARM, you’ve given birth to a happy baby orb! Soon, your scion will be rolling through the world, finding its own way through unimaginable adventures. Enjoy the moment, they grow up so fast these days.
-mike
Motion simulation
A simulation of pre-programmed orb motion by Pete Burnight. Imagine orbs rolling in patterns like these.