Guest article by Bob Gorman
Image source: Jeremy Levine via Flickr
With green building materials, you have many distinct advantages outside the obvious benefit that green materials have a better impact on the ...
green building materials for the sustainable houses of the future
Organic Materials
Playing With Food is fun video by Manuela Donoso, Yucef Merhi, and Michelle Boisson made for ITP's Tech Crafts class. The assignment was to test the capacitive properties of food by wiring edibles to an Arduino running ...
playing with food
Circuits, Conductive Materials, Organic Materials
BeetBox from Scott Garner on Vimeo.
Scott Garner, a student at NYU-ITP, created this wonderful musical instrument where the drums are actual beets. Here's Scott's description of the project:
Concept
The BeetBox is ...
beetbox :: organic musical instrument
Circuits, Organic Materials, Techniques
Last summer a few of us at NYC Resistor made the JelTone, a jello-based toy piano that can be eaten and played. Now, Marianne Cauvard and Raphael Pluvinage created the beautiful Noisy Jelly, a kit to make your own ...
noisy jelly :: an agar-based musical game
Organic Materials
The Resistor JelTone is an edible toy piano created by NYC Resistor members Ranjit Bhatnagar, Astrida Valigorsky, Mimi Hui and myself for the Jello Mold Competition.
As part of our experiments we realized that jello ...
the resistor jeltone :: an edible toy piano
Conductive Materials, Organic Materials
Interesting article at The Japan Times :)
TSUKUBA, Ibaraki Pref. (Kyodo) Researchers at the National Institute for Materials Science have found that an iron compound becomes superconductive — where electrical ...
wine is good for your superconductors
Conductive Materials, Organic Materials
ghost dress grown from a vat of green tea
Treehugger recently reported on BioCouture, a fashion research project based at Central Saint Martin's College in London and led by Suzanna Lee, which seeks to grow textiles ...
bio-couture :: green tea leather
Organic Materials, Textiles
There's been a lot of buzz lately about homemade biodegradable plastic. I haven't tried it myself, but thought it would be useful to gather here some resources relating to these experiments:
:: Above is a video by ...
resources for homemade bioplastic
Organic Materials, Polymers, Techniques
I just found an interesting 'Technical Note' authored by Western Research Laboratory (WRL), a research group that was founded by Digital Equipment Corporation in 1982.
'Characterization of Organic Illumination ...
electroluminescence in pickles
Organic Materials, Techniques
