Hacking Life

A brief and chaotic overview of DIYbio, biohacking and

transhumanism

Paul Kennedy

What do these words mean?

DIYBio: a movement that applies the DIY ethic to biological systems and biological researchBiohacking: The application of the DIYBio ethic to a specific challenge or projectTranshumanism: a movement of intellectuals, futurists and biohackers (grinders) with the goal of enhancing human intellectual or physical capabilities

DIYBio and Biohacking GroupsHackspaces

London BioHackSpace

DIYBio and Biohacking GroupsAcademia

DIYBio and Biohacking GroupsOpen-Source Methods and Resources

Projects

Chromochord

Stranger Visions Biojewellery

Glowing Plant

Projects

Biocurious cell printer DIY incubator

Robo Roach Near-infrared vision

Transhumanism (H+) and DIYBio

Neil Harbisson Lepht Anonym

Amal Graafstra Tim Cannon

My work – bioreactors

(Also a bioreactor!)

Controlled environments for

growing things like yeast, bacteria or

algae

Project Inspiration: DIY Bioreactor

Take home messages

• Nothing stopping you except mistakes, and pain/sepsis/death in the case of grinding. The information is out there.

• I will post a linkstorm of all the stuff I spoke about here: www.dreamingtothefuture.wordpress.com and on the Arduino CT group

• Watch this video – “Neil Harbisson: I listen to colour”