Growing the Future: Fungal Materials for Earth and Space
In a niche corner of the internet where creators still surprise audiences with real animatronics rather than CGI, Jesse Velez reveals the process behind the most impressive sci-fi props.
Biology
Corinne Okada Takara: Bringing Biology and Sustainable Materials Into Youth Makerspaces
Part science lab, part artistic experiment, part eye-opening experience with the natural world, Takara’s homebrew makerspace brings biodesign to eager students.
Biodesign and Biomaterials
At Valldaura Labs in Spain, researchers are looking at different ways to use biomaterials for sustainable living, architecture, energy, and production.
Safari In The Biohacking Society
A biohacker is someone with the mindset of a hacker, but who works with different tools, such as pipettes, incubators, tubes or petrie dishes.
Arduino-Powered Bioreactors Make Home Experimentation Affordable
Read about how one doctor was inspired to create an Arduino-powered bioreactor and ended up with an affordable, accurate device.
Let’s Start Hacking Brains
Hacking the brain is a frontier that’s touchy to explore. But it’s one where home-built gadgets can play an important role.
Your Next Hardware Project Might Be Biological, and Other News from the Solid Conference
O’Reilly Media held its annual Solid conference this week in San Francisco. It’s an annual show covering “Hardware, Software & the Internet of Things.” We found it eye-opening, informative, and occasionally controversial. Here’s some of what we heard at this year’s show: Synthetic Biology Joichi Ito, Director of the MIT Media Lab, explained that code is now being […]