Rebooting Biohack
It seems as if activity here has dropped to an all time low. It's time for us to get back in gear.
Needless to say, we need to start a mass recruiting campaign, unfortunately this requires that we actually have something to show new people. Even though it is dangerous, I think it is time we begin to tread into the bio part of bio-hacking. This means we have to contact our local DIYbio labs and see what we can get done. There is a place for programmers as well. I am sure we all know how insecure RFID chips are, perhaps they could be reprogrammed to be safer. These are just examples of what can be done now.
Target audience for recruiting: People with technical knowledge, such as engineers, scientists, programmers, and the like.
P.S: We should get working on a biohack.me Mumble. The more interaction the better
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That being said I recently found them again, and even though I'm going away on holiday soon I plan on having some implanted when i get back by a local BM I found who has tentatively agreed to do what he can to help. I'll put a video up when I do get it done.
Knowing who has and hasn't paid is somewhat difficult because it's hard for me to correllate the transactions to names in some cases, but I know that something like half of the people I shipped magnets to have paid me. Seems like some people got what they wanted from me and then vanished. That being said, *thankyou* to everyone who did pay (some of you even paid over the odds), it means a lot to me that I was able to help.
Mumble would be a fantastic idea, and I'm with anyone who wants to kickstart things again :)
You said it was around half the people??
Looking forward to being a part of this community.
J
1 Is there a way to sort posts by most recent? It seems as if all the posts are listed in order that they were started.
2 Does most of the discussion go on via IRC? I couldn't find the group when I checked the other day.
3 Magnetic implants seems to be the main thrust of the community. Is this a current focus, or is this the main interest of the members in general?
4 Have there been any efforts in compiling texts on grinding? I have developed quite a wide library in biology and computer science over the years, and it has helped me out enormously. I think it would be good if we developed a set of shared resources for the grinder community where we can all participate. It may also stimulate some discussion. I can start a new thread if this has not been resolved already.
Cheers,
J
1. Posts are sorted by the last time someone commented on them, with the exception of announcements, which always go on the top.
2. The IRC channel has changed, if you didn't already know this. It's now on freenode, channel ##biohack. There's not an awful lot of discussion, though, as of the last time I was there. Most of the discussion seems to go on at Grindhouse meetings at this point.
3. Magnetic implants are the starting point for most grinders, and the main focus when this site first launched was to get most people a set. Now, though, we've been focusing more on other projects (though mostly off-site).
4. Not to my knowledge.
~Ian
1 I released that my client side CSS was blocking some of the formatting. I have sorted that now.
2 I tried the new IRC, but I couldn't see any conversations there. What is Grindhouse?
3 Cheers. Althought the magnet implants is a fascinating areas, wetwork is more my thing.
4 I have created a new thread on the matter.
Cheers,
J