Title
Demo: From plastic to biomaterials: Prototyping DIY electronics with mycelium
Date Issued
09 September 2019
Access level
open access
Resource Type
conference paper
Author(s)
Lazaro Vasquez E.S.
University of California
Publisher(s)
Association for Computing Machinery, Inc
Abstract
Researchers, makers and hobbyists rely on plastics for creating their DIY electronics. Enclosures, battery holders, buttons and wires are used in most of the prototypes in a temporal way, generating waste. This research aims to extend the boundaries of biomaterials applications into electronics. Mycelium is a fast-growing vegetative part of a fungus which adapts to different shapes when growing in a mold and decomposes after 90 days in a natural environment as organic waste. In order to create more sustainable prototypes, we use mycelium composites with common digital fabrication techniques for replacing plastic in electronics. We present our method for growing mycelium, our design process of using digital fabrication techniques with mycelium, applications for embedding electronics in mycelium boards, making enclosures for electronics, and using mycelium within electronics. This paper could contribute with the merge of biomaterials and electronics, an approach which is still under exploration.
Start page
308
End page
311
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
BiotecnologĂa ambiental
ElectroquĂmica
QuĂmica orgĂ¡nica
Subjects
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85072898400
ISBN
9781450368698
Resource of which it is part
UbiComp/ISWC 2019- - Adjunct Proceedings of the 2019 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing and Proceedings of the 2019 ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computers
ISBN of the container
978-145036869-8
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