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)

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 Frog Show – by Mónica Rikić and Ruben Oya

Frog Show wants to elevate the singing frogs to an audiovisual experience. Since our…

Rainforest Digital Memories

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

Rust Garden

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

Audio Synthesis of the Túngara Frog Call

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

Transubstantiation – Radiophonic Sculpture Installations | living documentary

Rabía Williams (ACA) Radiophonic seed pod pictured: pod, copper wire 22, screws, AM radio…

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

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

Unnatural Language – Michael Ang and Scott Kildall

By Scott (Seamus) Kildall and Michael Ang Unnatural Language, a collaboration between Michael Ang…

Butterfly Wing Site-Specific Installation – Emily Volk

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

The Future Within – Grace Grothaus

Grace GrothausTHE FUTURE WITHIN: A digital seed archive and interactive sculpture series exploring threatened…

Balloon Environmental Sensing Takes to the Air

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

Kitty made a comic

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

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Dinacon 1 Projects (2561/2018)

Nocturnal Garden: Touch Sensor Environmental Art Installation

Relax and listen to Gregory Hanks Green play the Khaen a traditional Lao/Thai mouth organ…

Coconut water catcher 1.0

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

Dinna-con Foraging Guide (PDF)

Foraged Noms! The symbiosis of Dinna-con Fossils have led to the creation of the Ko…

The Department of Amphibological Research is now open for submissions!

Here at the Department of Amphibological Research, we take image recognition on new expeditions in the…

CRAB LAB

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

DinaSound is live!

Pearl Ryder is a cell biologist who came to DinaCon with the goal to explore the…

AUV flyby

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

Bioluminescence Textile – Elizabeth Bigger

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

DinaCrab: Hermit Crab Behavior

When humans are near, making noise or stomping on the ground or rippling the intertidal…

Smart environments: from natural to digital

In the future, we will live in “smart environments”. A smart environment is filled with…

Wild Behavior – Jonathan Gill

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

Erik Zepka

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

Glowing Dinaflagellate – Kitty Quitmeyer

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

Foraging Map, Koh Lon – Craig Durkin

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

DIY Marine Microbes – Kitty Quitmeyer

One of our conference node leaders , Kitty Quitmeyer (wellreadpanda.com), worked on creating DIY knitted…

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