August 11, 2008

Microcontroller Fireflies - ATtiny13 based

  These microcontroller based fireflies are cool. At first I thought they simply started to flash when the lights turned off but they actually are able to detect the flashes of their neighbors and sync themselves! "What can be observed is that the fireflies start with random blinking. But as time goes by, they are able to slowly synchronize with their nearest neighbors. And these neighbors are synchronizing themselfes with