I was in the Konditerei this morning and ran into my old pal Gordon Kruberg, who is one of the principals in Gumstix (more at Wikipedia).
The coolest Gumstix-powered project Gordon showed me was
The Pegasus High Altitude Balloon project is a UK based amateur student run project that involves launching payloads to "Near Space" (between an altitude of 60,000ft (20km) and 325,000ft (99km). This is achieved through the use of helium weather balloons which are designed to burst at a certain height and then the payload returns to earth via parachute.
But you might find Huosheng Hu's robotic fish cool, or the flying gridstorm
These projects are exploring ways of getting a group of small aircraft to fly like a flock of birds, while at the same time performing non-trivial task-related distributed computation across a wireless network.
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