CoT geeking with CoolBoard – Chalet of Things…

Posted on January 30, 2018January 30, 2018 by dusjagr

On my visit to Paris, La Paillasse, i met these people from La Cool Co. who made this nice little ESP8266 based plant/soil monitoring device. So i got myself 2 of them… one for hacking and one to install in RandeLab.

See more about the CoolBoard on their Instructables.

Check the monitor in the preview

Now connecting it to a small solar panel and leave it here for a while. let’s see if it logs something that makes any sense….

Hopefully for future Soil-Geeking i can add the CO2 sensor and change the data update rate to follow soil bacterial activity. coming soon. check our notes on the hackteria forum.

“Do Nothing” agriculture with Timbil and Geger

Posted on May 31, 2017May 31, 2017 by dusjagr

aaahh… that “do nothing” is more exhausting than expected!

SummerLab in RandeLab 2016 – Yeast-geeking and Edison-style

Posted on July 5, 2016July 10, 2016 by dusjagr

See more on the Hackteria Wiki.

Tried to grow more of Mary‘s YES-yeasts (Made in USA). Maybe I can make bread with it? Or ferment some sugars into alcohol? let’s just grow some more!

Thx to Mary I got some of her genetically modified yeasts (Made in USA), which act as estrogen bioreporters. Hmmm... i got some sterile tubes, special synthetic media -Trp, but the plate looks kinda infected, let's see how selectiv that media really is.
Setting up my lab bench on the balcony of RandeLab and fixing my old incubator. Yes there is also a coconut!
Maybe there are still some clean areas, but these mold spores usually are hard to get rid of
cooking cooking cooking and making solid media plates...
shake it shake it! grow grow grow your yeasts... lallalalallaaa
Five days laters... havent really had enough electricity left to keep the heating going, but some shaking in between. seems my plates mostly grew the molds. but let's hope there is still a more selective condition in the liquid media. adding some sugars now...

So now I just need to wait and the YES-yeast will grow, grow, grow your yeasts… lallalallalalaa. Time to got for a walk…

… and greet some friends! Welcoming Felix, the Uber-KulturChopf and creative educator from Labor Luzern, aswell as Jana and Kent from the local GeekSpace W3rkHof in 9kirch