GMU:DIY Bio: doing things with biology/Sirin Unmanee/06.11.2018 : Growing Mycelium and Experimenting with organic matter's electricity

Growing Mycelium

Mycelium is the vegetative part of a fungus or fungus-like bacterial colony, consisting of a mass of branching, thread-like hyphae. The mass of hyphae is sometimes called shiro, especially within the fairy ring fungi. Fungal colonies composed of mycelium are found in and on soil and many other substrates. A typical single spore germinates into a homokaryotic mycelium, which cannot reproduce sexually; when two compatible homokaryotic mycelia join and form a dikaryotic mycelium, that mycelium may form fruiting bodies such as mushrooms. A mycelium may be minute, forming a colony that is too small to see, or it may be extensive. (source : [1])

In the class, we used damp ground coffee as a medium for cultivating the Mycelium which live inside the small log.

06.11.2018 - 19:30

Experimenting with organic matter's electricity

We captured electric potentials of organic matter using Arduino with Max.msp to produce sound, following Martin Howse's guide.

In my case, I just experimented with electric current from my hands. Here is the result.