Interlockable devices
AssigneeHewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
InventorsMary Gray Baker, Alexander Thayer
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Abstract
Examples of devices are described herein. In some examples, a device may include a plurality of electronic elements. In some examples, each of the electronic elements is mechanically interlockable to another of the electronic elements. In some examples, each of the electronic elements is to control a lock state based on a broadcast signal to modify a shape of the device to a predetermined target shape.
Claims15
A device, comprising:
- a plurality of electronic elements, wherein each of the electronic elements is mechanically interlockable to another of the electronic elements, and wherein each of the electronic elements is to control a lock state based on a broadcast signal to modify a shape of the device to a predetermined target shape.
A method, comprising:
- receiving, by a plurality of mechanically interlocked elements, a broadcast signal;
- determining, by the plurality of mechanically interlocked elements, a subset of a plurality of shackle mechanisms to unlock based on the broadcast signal;
- and
- unlocking the subset of the plurality of shackle mechanisms.
A non-transitory machine-readable storage medium encoded with instructions executable by a processor, the machine-readable storage medium comprising instructions to:
- receive a broadcast signal;
- extract a portion of the broadcast signal corresponding to one of a plurality of mechanically interlocked elements of a device;
- determine whether to unlock each of a plurality of shackles based on respective indicators of the portion;
- and
- unlock a shackle or shackles of the plurality of shackles to change a shape of the device based on the determination.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.