Free ranging fish tanks! All over the building!
It’s a straightforward gadget: a camera senses the location of the fish in the tank, and uses that to control the steering. Zebrafish are schooling animals, so it would be cool to see them coordinating in mass formations dominating all the open spaces in the building.
Except for the stairs. Stairs would be most uncool.
carlie says
“Except for the stairs. Stairs would be most uncool.”
Just give it time. Daleks had trouble with stairs too.
For awhile.
Derek Vandivere says
The fish have been armed: http://sploid.gizmodo.com/a-goldfish-controlled-hammer-is-scarier-than-jaws-1795964879
Larry says
Oh that’s just great! Mobility is the first step towards total world domination by the fish. Well, that and opposable thumbs and brains larger than a grain of sand. Oh, and the ability to breathe air. They aren’t there yet but it’s happened once before…
Damn you, Carnegie Mellon! Damn you to hell!
davidnangle says
A little more equipment and software, and you can have the Jaws theme play as the tanks slowly come up behind busy, distracted humans.
Snarki, child of Loki says
We’re going to be needing more of these for our aquatic overlords from Zeta Reticulon 7, you know.
Sarah A says
They called me mad, but they’ll see! THEY’LL ALL SEE!!!! MWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!
michaelvieths says
Suddenly I feel as though we wasted a lot of time and effort evolving to walk on land.
octopod says
SCUBA gear for fish! (er…SCABA?)
whheydt says
There are a *lot* fo cool Raspberry Pi driven projects. Quite a few people are using Pis to control various aspects of aquarium management. Probably worth looking into for your lab….
For those unfamiliar with the Pi, it’s an inexpensive ($35 for the top model) Single Board Computer. The usual OS to run is a distro of Linux. The organization behind it–the Raspberry Pi Foundation–is a UK charity with a goal of promoting computing knowledge for children. The Pis have been adopted by the maker/DIY/tinkerer communities (and industrial/embedded as well) with glad cries of glee. Since the initial launch in 2012, about 13 million Pis have sold. Having passed the number of Commodore computers sold, the Pi is the third largest volume computer line in history, beaten out only by the Mac and PC.
I have the minor problem that I’ve lost track of how many Pis I have. I believe the total is upwards of 30. My “most used” one is my alarm clock…
drksky says
Professor Wornstrom did it first
https://youtu.be/pvRQ4d76ZV0
unclefrogy says
I saw the fish hammer on unstructables this morning the article before the actual how I did it is very droll. I immediately thought of changing it to have hammer strike tuned metal bars to make fish music.
amazing!
uncle frogy
Dark Jaguar says
That tank better have a nice safe dead zone in the middle so the fish can comfortably move around without moving the tank. Otherwise, this is some sort of moist nightmare.
robro says
Land shar…err, gold fish?
I keep thinking this is a metaphor for my life.
embraceyourinnercrone says
Be afraid! bwahahaha!! :
http://sploid.gizmodo.com/a-goldfish-controlled-hammer-is-scarier-than-jaws-1795964879
I for one look forward to our fishy overlords…oh dear, shades of Cthulhu
Robert Westbrook says
Is there any way to incorporate your quadcopter into this setup? Fish-controlled drones!
indianajones says
I hope you aren’t wasting tax payers money on this! To clarify, you should TOTALLY ‘waste’ tax payers money on this.
WMDKitty -- Survivor says
Today, fish tanks; tomorrow motorized wheelchairs!
The possibilities for adaptive technology are nearly endless!
iiandyiiii says
I, for one, would like welcome our new fish overlords. I’d like to point out that I’d make an excellent overseer, due to my communications skills and burliness, in the coming intensive worm and insect factory farms. Hail fish!
Cuttlefish says
Ah! The zebrafish version of this:
https://freethoughtblogs.com/cuttlefish/2008/04/21/i-just-love-xkcd/
Chakat Firepaw says
We see here an early test of Dr. Ghoti’s “Tank of Land Dweller Doom!”, shortly before Captain Squid apprehended him for the first time.
blf says
I see what you did there.