This post is coming to you live from the Elephant & Castle Mini Maker Faire being held today at the London College of Communication.
While the field is still fairly quiet right now, biohacking is the next big thing. There’s a grown segment of the maker movement that is talking about it, but not just that, they’re getting on and doing it.
I talked to Ilya Levantis from the London Biohackspace about JuicyPrint a 3d printer that can be fed with fruit juice and used to print out useful shapes made of bacterial cellulose using a genetically engineered strain of cellulose producing bacteria.
The G. hansenii (Gluconacetobacter hansenii) bacteria that the London Biohackspace is using is a is able to grow on a wide range of things like fruit juice, tea or even brewing waste. Once completed, building objects with the new printer will require only a computer, and a local a trip to your local market for supplies.
The Elephant & Castle Mini Maker Faire is being held at the London College of Communication from 10am till 6pm. Entry is free to children (under 16) and students, tickets are £5 otherwise and available on the door.
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The Wall Street Journal has had several articles about how fewer people are drinking orange juice and the industry is hurting.
It’s nice to see someone has come up with a way to aid our orange farmers.
:-) :-) :-)
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Was the audio sped up or something? I think he needs to try decaf. The thought of amateur gene splicing gives me pause. Of course gene splicing could give me paws.
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[…] MAKE’s Alasdair Allan reports, the bacteria responds to light and by carefully timing the pattern and frequency of exposure, you can theoretically get the little guys to pump out cellulose in a precise manner. Repeat this […]
[…] this could have, not only on the biohacking community, but on society as a whole. Levantis tells Makezine that they have proven the system to work, but are still waiting for “paperwork” to be […]
OMG! He’s trying to corner the Frozen Concentrated Orange Juice market! http://youtu.be/RLySXTIBS3c
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