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)

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…

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….

Watching Agoutis

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

ATTAFit – Workout Like a Leafcutter Ant

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

Butterfly Wing Site-Specific Installation – Emily Volk

Inspired by the scale detail of butterfly wings, my project at Digital Naturalism centered…

Sculpting Shadows

By Albert Thrower – albertthrower@gmail.com OVERVIEW In this project, I created three-dimensional sculptural artworks…

Rust Garden

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

Froggy camouflage handheld fans

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

Rainforest Digital Memories

Project by Marta Verde. In Gamboa, I felt really astonished by the gorgeous nature…

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Dinacon 1 Projects (2561/2018)

Glowing Dinaflagellate – Kitty Quitmeyer

Inspired by the microscopic creatures making the seas around her glow, Kitty Quitmeyer, created a…

Beginning notes on plant scatter – maps/pictorial forms

notes by Huiying Ng building on Craig Durkin’s foraging map Some old/fossilied DINAsaurs are…

Soil/earth/dirt and poop? Connections in:/out:

Soil/earth/dirt and poop? Connections in:/out: Reflections on my time at DINACON Huiying Ng Working…

Hiking Hacks: Designing Interactive Systems Paper – Andy Quitmeyer

During our Digital Naturalism Conference, I will actually have to go full-on meta-conference and present…

Robot Language Music Video-by Albert and Mary (Dezmediah)

with help from Maggie Kane, Tasneem Khan, Mark Lifana, and Andy Quitmeyer Make a kickass…

Biomimeticx2

This project has been performed in the premises of Dinacon (KohLon, Thailand), Harakka island…

AUV flyby

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

Erik Zepka

For the conference I did a series of projects, exploring different media and formats. I…

Tree Yabbie – Michael Candy

Michael Candy, the world’s fastest robot tinkerer, created a slew of robots at Dinacon. One…

DinaSynth Quartet – Scott (Seamus) Kildall

At Dinacon 2018, Scott (Seamus) Kildall prototyped a new project called DinaSynth Quartet, which is…

Crochetteering – a tale of fishy innovation

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

Hacking a camera to hack the jungle

This is a simple camera hack that can be done just about anywhere. We modified…

Drawing from Tinbergen

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

Island Caterpillar – Hannah Wolfe

http://www.dinacon.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/caterpillar.mp4 Hannah Wolfe’s goal was to explore caterpillar movement while on the island. She looked…

Translating Nature into Art

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

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