ShapeLab/SwarmUI
Necessary material to build and use Zooids to create Swarm User Interfaces observed · 2026-08-28
Health v2 · maintenance only
32/100
- Activity 0
- Release rhythm 35
- Longevity 100
Flags: no_releases
How is this computed?
round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-03. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.
- gap_med: n/a
- age_days: 3696
- days_rel: n/a
- days_push: 1205
- n_releases_24m: 0
Adoption not part of the score
1570 stars · 250 forks observed · 2026-08-28
What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded
Zooids is an open-source, open-hardware platform for building tabletop swarm user interfaces, consisting of small wheeled micro robots, a radio base-station, a DLP projector-based tracking system, and a layered software framework. The repository contains the hardware designs, firmware, and software (application, simulation, server, and hardware layers) needed to build and control the robot swarm.
Use cases
- build tabletop swarm user interface robots
- control many small robots with position tracking
- develop interactive applications with swarm robots
- set up projector-based optical tracking for micro robots
- simulate robot swarm behavior before deploying to hardware
- research tangible and swarm interfaces in HCI
When to choose
- you want to build or extend the Zooids open-hardware swarm robot platform
- you are doing HCI research on swarm or tangible user interfaces
- you need a complete hardware-plus-software reference for micro robot swarms with optical tracking
When to avoid
- you need a general-purpose robot simulation toolkit without custom hardware
- you want a software-only swarm simulation with no physical robots
- you cannot source the specialized DLP projector and custom electronics the platform requires
Facets
framework · maturity maintenance
simulation robotics middleware developer-tools robotics hardware cpp cross-platform swarm-user-interfaces zooids open-hardware tabletop-robots optical-tracking human-computer-interaction research-platform research
2 sources
- readme: https://github.com/ShapeLab/SwarmUI · fetched 2026-08-28 · f4059b55e0e9
- homepage: http://shape.stanford.edu/research/swarm/ · fetched 2026-08-29 · 0c3678a8d30a
Member repositories
| Repository | Role | Health v2 |
|---|---|---|
| ShapeLab/SwarmUI | main | 32 |
For agents
markdown · JSON · MCP: product_card(name="ShapeLab/SwarmUI")
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