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Training ants to detect food chemistry + allergens(?) in only 30 minutes? Not sure if its possible for all scent types, but this idea is promising.I bet we could mostly automate this with food droppers and piezo transducers (guitar pickup) and an Arduino. https://t.co/aiYO552RI8
So you don't get around the problem of needing to have a pure sample to train with obviously, so this doesn't scale for generic food purity testing without something to 'calibrate' against.https://t.co/z4xiDpqYF4
But having a DIY ant habitat in a living environment that incorporates a food sampling system sounds doable. https://t.co/NwsYWljUaU
Combine that with some basic microcontrollers and it might be possible to to end-to-end training of an in home "does x smell like y" for known goods samples?https://t.co/9bWYN8mHpk
This makes me realize despite having trained dogs myself with my mom (disability), I haven't actually explored scent training.https://t.co/QIAraVLCYO
Ants are sensitive to humidity, heat, and light, and these factors all play a role in scent as well, so not sure if a portable option would work. But maybe someone knows if you can keep live ants on your person? https://t.co/7TlgPkrQy6
Maybe there's a way to have an ants nest in a pet backpack?https://t.co/L6WZfJ6ymw https://t.co/sP0vq1BgBf
Some of the solid containers might be able to be made as a sort of semiportable 'outdoor' as part of their modular design?Note: we'd want to keep the ants safe and healthy so they don't make the rest of the colony sick from stress.https://t.co/TnFa34tWhj https://t.co/GtjWSuJX3X
This also highlights a way to test anothe one of my hunches. Can I get ants "trained" on smells from one colony to transfer learning entirely via gut microbe goo?https://t.co/5xKvHboQQz
If ants are sensitive to vitamin C, I might be able to create a test rig with pure stuff (easy to get) it and then use them to measure Vitamin C in other food stuffs.I already have notes on wanting to do this using high-performance liquid chromatography.https://t.co/JIN5f3Xen5
Condenser mics work to listen to ants.https://t.co/BZJVmgIfvn
I derived the dog barking idea via building a DIY condenser microphone to listen to carpenter ants."We used [tech] that was originally created to track the munching sounds of termites to see if we could detect problems in the human gut." https://t.co/ehUiWWCl80
I also know you can create pretty basic audio detection algorithms to detect them walking and stridulating...So it should be possible to triangulate them in the testing chamber and measure foot traffic.https://t.co/iP5f9Zz00c
"Tiny Vessels Make Much Noise: Listen To Ants As They Walk" https://t.co/qLP3t8AbgP
So.. uh.. theranos, but with ants.https://t.co/4rGWoBTitG
Tired: demonpore Wired: Semenscorehttps://t.co/4jiDMF1rT4
Please future me. Stop making jokes you don't want to come true.https://t.co/W6UugtjDS3
Friendly reminder, all my ideas are free.https://t.co/bkNkqYAq8l
"A team of researchers primarily based out of Sorbonne University in Paris has trained ants to recognize the subtle scent of cancer cells, hinting at their tantalizing potential to detect cancers in humans." https://t.co/ndCdXlBo5phahah.https://t.co/lu3SUkijGG
You can just connect ideas together if you wanna. Like this little thread on assertions between DNA methylation. And it's role in cancer and aging.Did you know that 'Sanic' is a sister meme to via "Gooby plz" lineage?"I'll Fuckin' Do It Again"https://t.co/ihJp6SEvSa https://t.co/fJOeUebzSi
Whelp, after I prove human hibernation I'll have to cure cancer with ants. Might be a hot minute.https://t.co/LWZTyxnljW
What are the ants smelling in the dirt that is paved with gold? Hmm. I have many ideas right now.https://t.co/CBndACrMiG
We could do a lot of fun things by training ants to smell things and then having them live inside of a mobile platform that samples the environment.https://t.co/HsP9Fcwx10
Can we listen to the ants to see when they are happy?https://t.co/GA7P736yvz
Make the ants happy. I remember watching the ants happy. I know how to do this.https://t.co/B5ECUaSFHC
There was a study that showed that bee seem to act as active vibration dampeners in large hives (can't find link), and also they seem to communicate that way: https://t.co/0wL0pOFCeA perhaps this is also something the ants are doing as a collective bridge building behavior.
I have been unable to sleep well since Wednesday. My GF has been having lung issues and had to go to the ER.Spent the past few days trying to figure out how to figure out how to fix her.https://t.co/iqVXTNrBxY
If diabetic wiz taste like honey, why not make it into a mead?Turning it into whiskey is just silly."Once fermented [...] whisky blends are added to give colour, taste and viscosity, and the product is bottled with the name and age of the contributor."https://t.co/DijCr6Qgm2
"I want my friends to not die."https://t.co/gY20SrqJV2
I am going to bed.https://t.co/CMKANLtcjf
Have you tried ignoring the problem for a little while and then upregulating what Karl Fristron describes as "Free energy" so Freuds 'wish fullfilment' mechanisms embedded in dreams create epiphanies, approximating the Ancient Greek ritual of incubation? https://t.co/FHVdOsCMIX
First thing I saw in my feed today: a DIY mobile ant colony platform.https://t.co/xdwQ9dCHJ8
Creativity; Let's a have a go, shall we?Aggressive Giant Spiders => Satisfactory => Arachnophobia Mode => Aggressive Giant Cats..."By the way, Feya means ‘fairy’ in Bulgarian. [...] It’s not relevant to the story in the slightest, I just like the cat."https://t.co/VFxE2F9u5v
Ah yes, OpenCat.I remember wanting to turn this into an ant once. Now I want to turn it into an robot centaur ant colony.https://t.co/kISdAGPvMC
Survey for healthy soil microbes & plant growing sites."In this video we want to show you how to design build and control a four leg electrically driven robot. The goal of our research is to make such machines robust versatile fast and energy efficient" https://t.co/6U0AsIUS3w
Oh hey, robohub has an article on the 2-legged walking robot being done by Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems and University of California, Irvine.https://t.co/AAdmfWQwGmhttps://t.co/z0hkGXXqfKMaybe the velociraptors were robots?https://t.co/3JRKUx34op
Oh ok. Yes. I understand what was in my dreams now. I had watched a synopsis of Maze Runner recently. The hybrid robots caught my eye. I was in a maze with childhood friends.Creepy AF.https://t.co/NVbPzPschOhttps://t.co/iOQpJYVX35
I turned off news customization / website tracking on my google account so I'm just getting the raw stream now. I've seen a news article about "Palm-sized spiders" (Joro?) every day this week.https://t.co/lSnFkMiD7ISo it was in my dreams. Subconscious. https://t.co/9PQJ1MJiDq
Speaking of, I also learned I can pet bees. Maybe bees can be trained to do the same thing? Might be more challenging to do immediate tests on for food quality, but could be a way to do a large site assay?https://t.co/YpRy15wPiL
Someone already has an experiment[dot]com study to track bee foraging behavior!"We have successfully completed a pilot study in 2015, so we know that we can indeed use radio-tagging to track bees and their responses to the landscape they live in." https://t.co/otlNBncQpW
FYI, stingless bees are probably the more ideal species for 'petting' and turning into service animals.https://t.co/CZANoBUK6Q
One of the ways bees become familiar with you is by learning your scent. https://t.co/f3R1CCmnfv
We can seemingly train bees to detect cancer entirely by scent, and we don't quite yet have good enough digital noses to replace bees https://t.co/elosfZgFgsThe hard part for scaling this out would be scaling out / automating the act of maintaining a trained colony IMHO.
I bet we can do this with a robotic nosehttps://t.co/TVS2jxE84c
Might be way smaller too.https://t.co/2fsdamGBS3
B E N G Iit's like BINGO, but with identifying gut toxins via scent.https://t.co/3cg8En9hkm
Was a farmer, had a dog. and ...https://t.co/1gb0dKFbZK