If your inspiration of fun is developing software for ambiguous computing platforms, then you're most likely by now down with Liquidware. It seems that Arduino-based projects like the GamePack as well as OpenBerry have become a little too simple for the gang, so they've determined to get on a little project to transform computers by "turning them inside out," so to converse. The Illuminato X Machina is a 4-inch square upon which sits a 72MHz ARM-based microprocessor, a devoted EEPROM chip for data storage, RAM, LEDs for output, as well as 14 I/O pins that line all of its four sides -- in short, a completely useful PC. The true magic of the process, yet, lies in the detail that these things are intended to bunch mutually, with all cells operating in comparable. "Like living organisms," it says at the group's website, the cells are "common." They separately communicate, share out processing power as well as programming, and even separate defective neighbors -- when one of the cells crashes, it won't bring the entire cluster down with it. Believe us, we've only scratched the surface here -- hit that read link order up some of these bad boys for manually, but not before you check out the videos after the break.

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