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Hacking Life
A brief and chaotic overview of DIYbio, biohacking and
transhumanism
Paul Kennedy
What do these words mean?
DIYBio: a movement that applies the DIY ethic to biological systems and biological researchBiohacking: The application of the DIYBio ethic to a specific challenge or projectTranshumanism: a movement of intellectuals, futurists and biohackers (grinders) with the goal of enhancing human intellectual or physical capabilities
DIYBio and Biohacking GroupsHackspaces
London BioHackSpace
DIYBio and Biohacking GroupsAcademia
DIYBio and Biohacking GroupsOpen-Source Methods and Resources
Projects
Chromochord
Stranger Visions Biojewellery
Glowing Plant
Projects
Biocurious cell printer DIY incubator
Robo Roach Near-infrared vision
Transhumanism (H+) and DIYBio
Neil Harbisson Lepht Anonym
Amal Graafstra Tim Cannon
My work – bioreactors
(Also a bioreactor!)
Controlled environments for
growing things like yeast, bacteria or
algae
Project Inspiration: DIY Bioreactor
Take home messages
• Nothing stopping you except mistakes, and pain/sepsis/death in the case of grinding. The information is out there.
• I will post a linkstorm of all the stuff I spoke about here: www.dreamingtothefuture.wordpress.com and on the Arduino CT group
• Watch this video – “Neil Harbisson: I listen to colour”