'Bio Computer' Blends Tech and Organic to Grow Wheatgrass

treehugger.com 14 May '12, 2pm

'Bio Computer' Blends Tech and Organic to Grow Wheatgrass

Self-described geek, Mike Schropp, built his own ‘bio computer’ in his basement to grow his own wheatgrass. © Mike Schropp Mike used various donated computers that he was able to disassemble to cobble together a working computer for his project. He had been looking for a project that allowed him to join his passion for technology with something organic, while allowing him to create a computer that his 5-year-old could learn and experiment with. He writes on his blog: I can’t exactly recall when the idea came to me, but at some point I started wanting to use the heat from a computer as a way to warm the soil and help with germination/growth. I’m about as far from a botanist as it comes, I did some reading online and became pretty interested in the effects of soil temperature on germination/growth. I read different studies and papers from various universities. It was not too...

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