The flying computer

450 computers in the sky

This is a drone light show in the night sky. 450 drones each fly to their own spot to make a picture, and then the picture moves. Every one of them is doing everything you just saw, by itself, hundreds to thousands of times a second. A drone is not just a toy. It is a small computer that stands in the sky by pushing air.

Why?Each show drone measures its own position with a device such as GPS and follows a planned path. When the wind blows, it corrects itself, just like you saw. People plan the show in advance. In the sky, the drones’ computers do the work.

Go furtherThe positions here come from a real show design (450 drones, about 100 seconds). Each dot on screen is one drone.