Electric Mushrooms

[Computer Nerd Kev]

A bit more complicated than with lemons, but:

http://www.3ders.org/articles/20181112-bionic-mushrooms-covered-in-3d-printed-cyanobacteria-produce-bio-electricity.html

"Researchers at Stevens Institute of Technology have developed
bionic mushrooms that uses graphene to produce electricity.
More accurately, the researchers added 3D printed clusters of
cyanobacteria to the mushroom's cap, which gave the fungi the
ability to generate electricity. They also put in graphene
nanoribbons to collect the current."

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[news18]

On Mon, 12 Nov 2018 21:49:10 +0000, Computer Nerd Kev wrote:

A bit more complicated than with lemons, but:

http://www.3ders.org/articles/20181112-bionic-mushrooms-covered-in-3d-
printed-cyanobacteria-produce-bio-electricity.html

"Researchers at Stevens Institute of Technology have developed
bionic mushrooms that uses graphene to produce electricity. More
accurately, the researchers added 3D printed clusters of cyanobacteria
to the mushroom's cap, which gave the fungi the ability to generate
electricity. They also put in graphene nanoribbons to collect the
current."

However, it does nothing for battery life.

 

[Computer Nerd Kev]

news18 <news18@woa.com.au> wrote:

On Mon, 12 Nov 2018 21:49:10 +0000, Computer Nerd Kev wrote:

A bit more complicated than with lemons, but:

http://www.3ders.org/articles/20181112-bionic-mushrooms-covered-in-3d-
printed-cyanobacteria-produce-bio-electricity.html

"Researchers at Stevens Institute of Technology have developed
bionic mushrooms that uses graphene to produce electricity. More
accurately, the researchers added 3D printed clusters of cyanobacteria
to the mushroom's cap, which gave the fungi the ability to generate
electricity. They also put in graphene nanoribbons to collect the
current."

However, it does nothing for battery life.

I gather that the idea is to use different types of bacteria as
organic sensors producing electrical signals which can be
interpreted by circuitry. Or to affect their behaviour in reaction
to the electronic circuit that they are connected in.

Early days though.

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[news18]

On Tue, 13 Nov 2018 21:37:54 +0000, Computer Nerd Kev wrote:

news18 <news18@woa.com.au> wrote:
On Mon, 12 Nov 2018 21:49:10 +0000, Computer Nerd Kev wrote:

A bit more complicated than with lemons, but:

http://www.3ders.org/articles/20181112-bionic-mushrooms-covered-in-3d-
printed-cyanobacteria-produce-bio-electricity.html

"Researchers at Stevens Institute of Technology have developed
bionic mushrooms that uses graphene to produce electricity. More
accurately, the researchers added 3D printed clusters of
cyanobacteria to the mushroom's cap, which gave the fungi the ability
to generate electricity. They also put in graphene nanoribbons to
collect the current."

However, it does nothing for battery life.

I gather that the idea is to use different types of bacteria as organic
sensors producing electrical signals which can be interpreted by
circuitry. Or to affect their behaviour in reaction to the electronic
circuit that they are connected in.

Early days though.

Yep, sensors. The problem with mushrooms is that just about all I know
have fragile, short lived fruiting bodies(the mushroom), except bracket
fungi. Now, if it was more of a yeast, then I'd expect something useful
before my kids die.