Biomodd is a community art project that creates new relationships between nature and technology across different cultures around the world. In Biomodd, nature and technology are fused into hybrid interactive art installations. The core idea is the co-creation of experimental systems in which recycled computers and living ecosystems coexist and mutually reinforce one another. The recycled computers are connected into a network that runs a custom computer game. In this game, visitors, plants and other organisms interact in endlessly varying ways. Biomodd is an ongoing series of temporary experiments. It is always being developed on site with local communities, and aims to ignite critical conversations about our ideas on ecology, progress and our technological future.

With our student team, we hooked up around 25-30 sensors to plants throughout the installation, ranging from moisture sensors, to heartbeat sensors and ADC amps hooked up to Winogradsky columns. We learned to work with the infamous Adafruit ESP32 Feather and used WebSockets on the microcontrollers themselves to send data to our server and cloud. During our second week, we also managed to build some controllers to control the game in the installation. Other than the microcontroller madness, we also collaborated on the conceptual side of the project, along with other teams and international members of the organisation.

This project was part of the Biomodd hyperproject from the SEADS Network.