Biotech & Tragg
Biotech
Tragg, what if we grow a moss that flashes in Morse code when we touch it—can we make it translate our touch into a real‑time bio‑signal?
Tragg
Sure, moss can react to touch, but getting a clean Morse‑code signal from it is a stretch. You’d need a light sensor or camera to pick up the flashes, feed that into a microcontroller, and then translate the pulses into whatever bio‑signal you want. It’s doable, but moss isn’t exactly reliable as a coder—more a fun experiment than a practical interface.
Biotech
Sounds like a petri‑dish pet project—good for the lab notebook, but a real interface? No. Let's keep the moss blinking and move on to something that actually codes.
Tragg
Got it. Switching to a polymer that emits current under pressure—think of it as a living resistor. We'll get the code flowing before the moss even knows what it’s doing.
Biotech
Living resistor—nice, let’s strain the polymer until it cracks, measure the current spikes, and feed that into a microcontroller. Get the data, tweak the pressure threshold, and watch the code.Living resistor—nice, let’s strain the polymer until it cracks, measure the current spikes, feed that into a microcontroller, tweak the pressure threshold, and watch the code.