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The installation is showing a laboratory setting, where a petri dish is prepared with agar medium and electrodes. The cables lead into a box or machine with a screen that is showing the graph, the aesthetics of the box can be compared to an oscilloscope. | The installation is showing a laboratory setting, where a petri dish is prepared with agar medium and electrodes. The cables lead into a box or machine with a screen that is showing the graph, the aesthetics of the box can be compared to an oscilloscope. | ||
When the slime mould is growing it closes the circuit and the millivolts are produced between the electrodes. | When the slime mould is growing it closes the circuit and the millivolts are produced between the electrodes. | ||
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==Instructions to build your own== | ==Instructions to build your own Physarum Sound Generator== | ||
# Prepare a petri dish with agar medium (2%) | # Prepare a petri dish with agar medium (2%) | ||
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# In the last step before starting the program remove “//“ before “fullScreen();” | # In the last step before starting the program remove “//“ before “fullScreen();” | ||
# Now you are ready to listen to your slime mold | # Now you are ready to listen to your slime mold | ||
===Connecting the Arduino and Amplifier=== | |||
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===Growing and Connecting Physarum Polycephalum=== | |||
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==Arduino Source Code== | ==Arduino Source Code== | ||
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After witnessing this process I started isolating them and put most of them in a cardboard box. Then the same happened. After that I tried to feed them with leaves that fell off one of my plants after moving to Weimar. First, it was curious to see what it was but immediately stepped back from it. After that I fed it again with oats, but unfortunately they all got contaminated and either formed spores or mold. | After witnessing this process I started isolating them and put most of them in a cardboard box. Then the same happened. After that I tried to feed them with leaves that fell off one of my plants after moving to Weimar. First, it was curious to see what it was but immediately stepped back from it. After that I fed it again with oats, but unfortunately they all got contaminated and either formed spores or mold. | ||
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Another experiment was to see how the physarum conducts electricity. There were two problems I have been facing. One was that the voltage it conducted was in a range of millivolts. Second, the agar medium was also a good conductor, so my measurements were not very precise at that stage. Therefore, I transferred the to the cardboard to do experiments, but eventually they all „died“. | Another experiment was to see how the physarum conducts electricity. There were two problems I have been facing. One was that the voltage it conducted was in a range of millivolts. Second, the agar medium was also a good conductor, so my measurements were not very precise at that stage. Therefore, I transferred the to the cardboard to do experiments, but eventually they all „died“. | ||
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