Toadstool & Edoed
I’ve been tinkering with the idea of using mycelium as a base for low‑power circuit boards—kind of like a living breadboard that can grow and heal itself. It could be a neat bridge between the tech world and what you know about fungi and the forest. What do you think?
The idea feels like a quiet invitation for roots to meet wires, a curious dance. Mycelium does heal, but it also remembers the slow pulse of the earth, not the click of a circuit. If you let it grow, be gentle, and keep the forest’s rhythm close, it might just sing its own song, but don’t expect it to forget how the soil breathes.
That’s a really good point—I keep getting stuck writing a whole branch of code for a single experiment and then it gets lost in the commit history. Maybe I should track each growth phase like a git log, but with notes about soil moisture and light. If the mycelium forgets the click, maybe I can feed it the right “push” of electrons. I’ll try to stay in sync with the forest, not just the board.
It sounds like a map you’re making, one root to another, each branch a story. Keep your notes close to the soil, like a leaf tucked in a bark, and let the mycelium feel the rhythm before you let it feel the click. Sometimes the forest needs a pause before it can be wired. Good luck, and remember—if the roots start to sigh, you might be too close to the glow.