Hello, I am new here.

My first project, will involve making hybrid plants using plant cultures. I remember reading about it in a make magazine.

The second is bio-hacking yeast, but too do what?

I have three questions to ask.
One: what plants to use?
Two: what can I make the yeast to do?
Three: what were, are, or going to be your starting projects?

Thank you for reading, please tell me what you think.

Hey Teslaboypunk,

Check out http://ag.arizona.edu/pubs/garden/mg/pr ... fting.html for a simplified culture and some info about grafting.

Thank you!

I think the first project will be hacking a plant, maybe moss(grows fast). The “Hello World” would probably be adding my name or some message to the genome. Next hack size, growth rate and appearance.

-Splicer

Sounds like a cool project. Did you get the name splicer from bioshock?

Yes. I think I decided to use it when I was reading about the game. I haven't actually played it though.

I liked the name, it means something like “splicing ideas into the idea space.” to me.

“Brother Splicer” sounds good too.

I forgot to say before that after the initial "hello world" and plant project the next project is to build zombies of course.

- Splicer

Zombies sound better then dino-chickens.

Freeman Dyson says he would like to see people play with dinosaurs but not microbes. I think it's in the same talk where he says it's a bad idea to ask him about the future. He illustrates this with the story about how he in 1945 advised Francis Crick not to go into biology.

- Splicer

How exactly does one add one's name to a genome? The base pair naming convention we use contains four letters and you run a much higher risk of screwing something up if your name doesn't have a number of letters divisible by 3. (I suppose you could add a filler base or two if not, though...) Do you mean you're going to develop a signature protein for the plant to express or something?

I was thinking of writing it in cipher in some unexpressed sequence of the genome. Only I would have to know it was there. And if I wanted to make it public I could share the cipher and the position.

-Splicer

Cool.

Or you could use one-letter amino acid code? Granted, this seems somewhat less meaningful if it's in a location where it'll never be expressed...

SPLICER = Ser Pro Leu Ile Cys Glu Arg

letters missing from amino acids: B, J, O, U, X, Z

You are right. I kind of like the idea that only I and the ones I choose to tell know of the hack though.

-Splicer

You could have a color on the plant and have that color group into a word.

How about this as a Biopunk hack? Hacking minds instead of molecules.

(Sorry. All versions of this clip seem to have to be played from directly from youtube.)

-Splicer