Biomaker Winter Challenge 2021:
Exploring Plants, Soil and the Environment
The Biomaker Challenge is an opportunity to work with an interdisciplinary team to identify and solve lab or field challenges, learn to use code-free programming for hardware and user interface development, develop biological applications, scientific instruments and real-world tools, or develop new ideas.
The 2021 Challenge “Exploring Plants, Soil and the Environment” will support teams to develop hardware and/or software projects in 3 categories:
Sensors, field communication and machine learning for environmental survey and monitoring.
Measurement and control of plant growth in science, agriculture and gardening.
Electronic and biological sensors for management of soil health.
Examples of previous relevant projects can be found on the Plants and Instrumentation pages.
This year, we are promoting the generation and sharing of XOD-based no-code resources, but other coding environments are entirely acceptable.
Teams will have the opportunity to develop links with researchers at our partner institutions (University of Cambridge, John Innes Centre, Earlham Institute), or partners in the Signals in the Soil (SitS) programme. This year’s Biomaker Challenge is funded by the BBSRC-EPSRC OpenPlant Synthetic Biology Research Centre and the NERC-NSF Signals in the Soil programme.