Projects

Everyone coming to DINACON has just 3 simple rules:

Make Something
Document and Share it
Give feedback to at least 2 other folks about their thing!

Many projects are also collected in our books (which are available to download for free)!

Here is also a growing collection of all the amazing projects developed at our fun little jungle/sea conference!

Dinacon 2 Projects (2019)

Audio Synthesis of the Túngara Frog Call

Before the sun had even set on my first day in Gamboa I had…

galoshes with crepuscle camera at night — Crepuscle, by Ashlin Aronin

Night falls in Gamboa, Panama — site of the 2019 Digital Naturalism Conference. The…

Seedpod LED Hack (Easy, educational bio-augmentation project) – Emily Volk

Exploring around Gamboa on trails and streets, I became fascinated with these flower-shaped seedpods….

The Sustainable Zine

The Sustainable Zine featuring the DinaCon logo lasercut by Andy Quitmeyer Zines have been…

Watching Agoutis

I came to Dinacon already a devotee of agoutis. I had been observing them,…

Eco-Digital Survival (Redux) in Extreme Landscapes

by Stephanie RothenbergThe first time I heard about Andy Q and Digital Naturalism was…

Balloon Environmental Sensing Takes to the Air

We have liftoff. My first Balloon Environmental Sensing test successfully “slipped the surly bonds…

complexity + leafcutters: code/improvisation

The shimmering, industrious leafcutter ants that build highways on the forest floor make up…

Rust Garden

Rust is gorgeous. We marvel at its endless shades of ochre, red, orange and…

Kitty made a comic

I’m learning how to use Procreate, and I thought I’d use it to flesh…

Froggy camouflage handheld fans

Project by Anna Carreras. BAU Design College of Barcelona, Spain. Hand fan (abanico) inspired…

ATTAFit – Workout Like a Leafcutter Ant

Ann Gerondelis, Drexel UniversityRaja Schaar, Drexel UniversityProject created for the Digital Naturalism Conference, 2019…

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Dinacon 1 Projects (2561/2018)

AUV flyby

Minor change of plans: instead of running a mission (list of waypoints), the AUV…

Foraging Map, Koh Lon – Craig Durkin

Craig Durkin started mapping fruit and foods you can find on the island! Many new…

Translating Nature into Art

As an artist, I see myself less so as creator and more so as a…

Dinaclock: A time-correct view of Chalong Bay

Josh Michaels – http://joshjet.net I spent my time on the island filming time-lapse photos of…

Coconut water catcher 1.0

Are your bowls too small to catch your coconut water? Do you struggle to prevent…

Cococrafts 1 – Open a coconut: Dennis and Lydia

How to video straight from #dinacon! Dennis teaches you how to easily get into coconuts…

Dinnercon: Recipe Book and Foraging Guide

This is a wonderful recipe book filled with foraged and fun ingredients from our time…

Bioluminescence Textile – Elizabeth Bigger

by Elizabeth Bigger An unplanned and rapid experiment resulted from an evening of swimming with…

Drawing from Tinbergen

Margaret Minsky 2018 At Dinacon I did some drawing. I chose to copy drawings by…

Tree Area Network (TAN) – a private Network for trees and humans

A TAN is a Network using plant-infrastructure to transmit data over trees. (Ingo Randolf) Introduction…

Island take away sound glasses – Mónica Rikić

I came with the idea of making a playful device at the island. I brought…

Crochetteering – a tale of fishy innovation

by Hannah Perner-Wilson (+C, KOBAKANT) My plans for Dinacon were to develop An Underwater Studio…

CRAB LAB

an Amphibological Research Project Introduction Here at the Department of Amphibological Research, our primary studies…

DINApack

Wild Behavior – Jonathan Gill

My project was to develop a low-cost, open-source platform for testing the perceptual and cognitive…

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