Slime Mold

Week 8 Readings

It is pretty astonishing that we as a human race are coming closer to evolving our technology in the medical department of machines. For people to measure how our bodies are treating us psychologically, physically, and biologically will change medicine as a man kind. We will develop machines that can help diagnose and cure diseases that they will basically become a borderline medical doctor. This is hard for me to wrap my mind around, it almost seems surreal, like in old movies about the future where humans have discovered hover boards and it's just a daily life product.

Project Plan

For this project I will need the following materials:

Ferrofluid 

Magnets

Switches

Lights

Arduino

I want to create a system that will activate ferrofluid into turning on and off a light switch. In this process I want the ferrofluid to be the main source for activating the light. The ferrofluid will be in a container with a series of magnets, the box will seal in the fluid from leaking. On the outside of the box the magnets will be connected to a switch to activate the magnetic pull of the ferrofluid. When the switch is on the fluid will travel to that magnet. Each magnet will contain its own individual colored light source or be the off switch to the system.