{"id":494,"date":"2007-05-21T23:10:48","date_gmt":"2007-05-21T22:10:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lumen.nu\/rekveld\/wp\/?p=494"},"modified":"2019-08-24T21:56:27","modified_gmt":"2019-08-24T20:56:27","slug":"paintable-computers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joostrekveld.net\/?p=494","title":{"rendered":"paintable computers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>amazing stuff (quoted from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.computer.org\/portal\/site\/computer\/menuitem.5d61c1d591162e4b0ef1bd108bcd45f3\/index.jsp?&amp;pName=computer_level1_article&amp;TheCat=1065&amp;path=computer\/homepage\/April07&amp;file=softtech.xml&amp;xsl=article.xsl&amp;\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">this<\/a> overview):<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Closely related to the swarm idea is the concept of a paintable computer, as Bill Butera proposed in his PhD dissertation (&#8220;Programming a Paintable Computer,&#8221; doctoral dissertation, MIT Media Laboratory, MIT, 2002).<\/p>\n<p>The idea is that several thousand parasitically powered and pinless integrated circuits\u2014each the size of a match head\u2014with an onboard microprocessor, small memory, and wireless connectivity can be suspended in a viscous material and then &#8220;painted&#8221; on various surfaces. Once exposed to a power source, the components or pfrags self-organize and communicate with external systems via physical contact with objects fitted with a transceiver that defines a suitable communication protocol.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>here two pictures from his PhD <a href=\"http:\/\/web.media.mit.edu\/~vmb\/papers\/buteraphd.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">thesis<\/a> about some of the self-organizing properties of his computing particles (a kind of crystallization really, very similar to what the virtual particles for my film <a href=\"https:\/\/www.joostrekveld.net\/wp\/?p=479\">#37<\/a> do..):<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image495\" src=\"https:\/\/www.joostrekveld.net\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/05\/butera1.jpg\" alt=\"butera1.jpg\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image493\" src=\"https:\/\/www.joostrekveld.net\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/05\/butera2.jpg\" alt=\"butera2.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>amazing stuff (quoted from this overview): &#8220;Closely related to the swarm idea is the concept of a paintable computer, as Bill Butera proposed in his PhD dissertation (&#8220;Programming a Paintable Computer,&#8221; doctoral dissertation, MIT Media Laboratory, MIT, 2002). The idea is that several thousand parasitically powered and pinless integrated circuits\u2014each the size of a match &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.joostrekveld.net\/?p=494\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">paintable computers<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":493,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-umwelt","category-websites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joostrekveld.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joostrekveld.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joostrekveld.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joostrekveld.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joostrekveld.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=494"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.joostrekveld.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2537,"href":"https:\/\/www.joostrekveld.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494\/revisions\/2537"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joostrekveld.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joostrekveld.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joostrekveld.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joostrekveld.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}