Second day of exhibition and things were getting more crowded. Our fermentation had been going for 24 hours and things were growing well. The bacteria were expressing stress as light and could be seen wearing special polarised glasses despite the bright light conditions.
Fresh banana bacteria had been grown overnight and was brought in.
The plants had finally taken and were growing in ferrofluid solution.
By 11am we were told to clear our exhibition space of people to allow the organisers to flush people through.
People outside had been waiting for 4 hours in temperature above 30ºC. We were overwhelmed by the amount of people and their great enthusiasm to see the exhibits.
Exhibiting living works requires more than "plugging in a battery" and after nerve-wrecking days of putting it all together we were relieved that our efforts were working.
Srishti Malpath and Shivanjali Yadav, took the reins while we explored the other exhibits in the Techconnect hangar with Sai Prashanth. Most of the exhibits in our own hall involve robotics. Much of the research shown at Techconnect resembled a scientific poster exhibition.
It was interesting to see more interactive visual displays of research through models and devices.
We found a curious piece of rural technology we tested, allowing farmers and their families to carry large amounts of water whilst reducing the strain on their body.
