Sustainable Gardening: Projects with The Seasonal Garden
At SEIN, our ‘Grow’ philosophy is about nurturing a deeper connection to the land and our food, often augmented by thoughtful technology. We believe in empowering individuals to cultivate their own sustenance in ways that are both efficient and respectful of nature’s rhythms. It’s about bringing the wisdom of the garden into the modern home and community space.
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The Sentient Chamber: A DIY Wireless Fermentation Controller
Fermentation is a dance between control and surrender. We create the conditions, add the culture, and then step back to let an invisible world of microbes work its magic. But any fermenter knows that the environment is everything. The wild sourdough that thrives in a cool, humid kitchen might struggle in a warm, dry one. The perfect kimchi requires a consistent chill. A home-brewed beer like a lager demands a precise, unwavering cold fermentation, while an ale needs a steady warmth. The mash for a future distillation, perhaps using surplus lemons or plums from your own garden, needs to be kept at an optimal temperature to ensure a clean ferment, free of off-flavours. Even a simple Hard Lemon brew can turn if the temperature swings too wildly.
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The Things Network South Australia
In a world dominated by centralised, corporate-owned networks, what if we could build our own? What if the infrastructure for the Internet of Things (IoT)—the very network that connects our sensors to the digital world—was owned and operated by the community it serves?
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Part 4: A Different Path for LoRaWAN
In the history of technology, there are forks in the road. Moments where a different choice, a different philosophy, could have led us to a profoundly different world. In this series, we’ve explored the degenerative path taken by many DePIN projects, with Helium as a case study—a project that captured the incredible energy of a community-built network, only to see that energy diverted down a familiar, extractive path. This is the degenerative trajectory toward techno-feudalism, where centralization and extraction create scarcity and render the network’s builders into a surplus population.
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