That is awesome, and if I know anything about voxel displays, photos are several orders of magnitude less cool than seeing it in person!

I was lucky enough to learn about SPTH very early on and, when I first heard about it, I thought "That is EXACTLY the best platform from which to propose to Hallie!" I worked my rear off to make that happen.

That story is here. We got married at Maker Faire in May.

I'll let you know of Orb Swarm does gigs any time soon, we do travel nationally. I think we are all gigged out at the moment.

As far as how CC can help, I don't want to ask for hand outs, but if I think of anything, I'll let you know.

I will say that I envision the MMM and a low KV motor as the item to pick for the "Off The Shelf Swarm" and once I get further on this project, since we are totally open source, you are free and invited to bring your own swarmable bots to play with ours.

If I had to make a wish, however, if there was anyway to get an RPM count out of the MMM (for robo dead reckoning) it would be a huge boon for robo-nerds everywhere.

I've though about simple watching and counting the pulses off the motor leads, but I haven't played with that yet and it does go a little against the "off the shelf"ness of the project. I know that I cannot expect this project to be without work from the user, but I wanted to reduce that as much as possible.

Dead reckoning is one of about 6 of the inputs to our kalman filter for orb swarm. I know it's noisy, but it's very important for keeping our GPS readings sane.

If you are ever in SF, lemme know. Coreyfro@coreyfro.com