Hardware & Field Inquiries

Ecological computing in practice

Active prototypes and monitoring infrastructure engineered to run strictly within localized energy cycles. Each unit tests material limits, soil heat exchange, and graceful system degradation under real canopy constraints.

Active Systems

Three physical investigations

These ongoing deployments interrogate physical compute interfaces, low-power telemetry, and thermal integration within temperate forest biomes.

System 01
System 02
System 03

Canopy heat exchanger

Intermittent runtimes

Mycorrhizal telemetry

Passive thermal sinking infrastructure engineered for small computational enclosures mounted in sub-canopy environments. Employs convective airflow to dissipate low-wattage server heat directly through moisture gradients without forced mechanical ventilation.

A firmware framework designed for edge computing nodes tied directly to fluctuating micro-solar arrays. Processes computational tasks asynchronously during peak insolation and persists state into non-volatile storage when atmospheric conditions dip.

Sub-surface sensor arrays cast in biodegradable cellulose resin, tracking soil humidity and mycelial network conductance. Transmits micro-burst telemetry across low-frequency radio bands without disrupting surrounding rhizosphere chemistry.

Visual Documentation

Field deployment records

Hardware specimens and field housing units documented during continuous multi-season exposure across temperate rainforest plots.

Empirical Limits

Field performance benchmarks

1.8W

peak enclosure power cap

99.4%

state recovery after brownout

14 mo

continuous unattended run

0 g

synthetic polymers in soil

Access schematics and datasets

All hardware designs, enclosure CAD files, and raw environmental telemetry logs are shared under open academic licenses with research collaborators and field institutions.