Jun 8, 2014
DRENCH-GUN MECHANISM.
Although a fairly rudimentary design, we're thinking of using a mechanism similar to that of a drench-gun (used to feed medicine to live-stock) to deposit our straw paste. This embodies a more hands-on interaction as opposed to using technology to do the work for you, however we're still interested in retaining an x/y/z axis to deposit the material.
We would re-design this system to make it visually cohesive with the rest of our design. We've decided we won't inoculate the paste with our Mycelium while it's in the drench-gun capsule as within a few days the Mycelium would have fed on the paste and consequently blocked up the gun. We will have to establish a way of inoculating the paste post-extrusion.