Comment on is there anything for pigeons? I desperately need remote control pigeon

Strayce@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

• OwOarchist@pawb.social ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  This very much could be real.

  Experiments have shown before that simple insects have very simple responses to detecting light in different directions. Shine a light in one eye, they go left. Shine a light in the other eye, they go right. Shine a light in both eyes, they go straight forward.

  It would be fairly simple to glue a couple tiny LEDs to the insect’s eyes and wire them up to a tiny microcontroller and radio receiver. And voila – remote control roach.

  Probably not super reliable in the controls and doesn’t always go exactly where you want it … but it should do a decent job of going in the general direction you tell it to.

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• arudesalad@piefed.ca ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Vsauce made a video on it!

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