Fungi sound

Description

Fungi Sound seeks to be a new listening experience, creating headphones with mycelium, a biomaterial obtained from the Pleurotus ostreatus, commonly known as Oyster mushroom. This material has high acoustic absorption, a property that optimizes audio quality.

This is how unique hearing aids of their kind are created, with biodegradable materials that guarantee an optimal experience for the user without sacrificing the environment.

Details

The headphone industry is dominated by plastic headphones, and environmentally friendly headphones are rare to find.

Fungi Sound wants to incorporate biomaterials to minimize the environmental impact plastic headphones could generate. Using mycelium we are not only exploring a new material that could have many uses in the future of design and technology, but also we are exploring a material that has many great qualities, and integrating nature into an everyday product.

When we first started working we wanted to experiment with biomaterials, and we found out about the mycelium, a biomaterial that is generated as a network of fungal threads or hyphae.

After some research, we found out that experiments and work with mycelium are rare in Mexico, so we partnered with a biologist so she could advise us through the process.

After more research about mycelium, we wanted to incorporate technology into our final product, and we wanted to bring this product into everyday life.

Our team loves listening to music, and we each have headphones, so we started working to ideate a new concept of headphones that incorporated mycelium.

In design, we consider biomaterials as smart materials, and we work with them as technologies.

For the headphone functions, we generated an internal circuit, and we added Bluetooth with features to turn the sound up and down, take calls, and pause the music.

We want to develop and research a little further some new components and technologies for the internal circuit, so these components could be reused, recycled or even biodegrade and have an even more friendly to the environment product.

We also want to find new ways to grow the mycelium, to keep experimenting with new shapes and ways to incorporate it in the headphones, or even in other future projects.

We want to make Fungi Sound a project that can evolve easily, implementing new technologies and materials, so this can be a project that moves with tendencies and new technological developments.

Files

Book-Fungi sound.pdf

Fungi Sound photobook

Adobe Portable Document Format - 43.29 MB - 05/25/2023 at 15:23

Preview

MI-brief diseño.pdf

Our design brief

Adobe Portable Document Format - 30.44 MB - 05/25/2023 at 15:23

Preview

FUNGI- POSTER.pdf

The poster of Fungi Sound

Adobe Portable Document Format - 1.38 MB - 05/25/2023 at 15:21

Preview

Components

1 × Raspberry pie

3 × Wires

1 × Horn unit

4 × Multifunctional button

Project Logs

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Fungi Sound Photoshoot
Tayanna Arfeuille • 05/25/2023 at 16:50 • 0 comments

We took some professional pictures of Fungi Sound to make a Photobook.
Presenting our project
Tayanna Arfeuille • 05/25/2023 at 16:45 • 0 comments

We had some presentations of our project to have some feedback about our project.
The implamation of our circuit
Tayanna Arfeuille • 05/25/2023 at 16:41 • 0 comments

We started implementing all of our circuits and components to make the headphones work.
Unifying our prototype
Tayanna Arfeuille • 05/25/2023 at 16:38 • 0 comments

Here are some images of the process of us making our prototype, unifying all of the materials.
More materials
Tayanna Arfeuille • 05/25/2023 at 16:30 • 0 comments

Some new additions to the materials we will be working with
The materials
Tayanna Arfeuille • 05/25/2023 at 16:26 • 0 comments

Just an overview of the main materials we will be using, including the mycelium that is now in shape and ready
Working on the structure
Tayanna Arfeuille • 05/25/2023 at 16:24 • 0 comments

We are working with wood and some metal to make the main structure of the project.
The parts of Fungi Sound
Tayanna Arfeuille • 05/25/2023 at 16:21 • 0 comments

This is a little map of the material and parts we are going to have in the project.
Working on the lab with mycelium
Tayanna Arfeuille • 05/25/2023 at 16:13 • 0 comments

We worked on the lab with the mycelium to finally make the shapes that we needed to make the ear parts of the headphones.
Our idea
Tayanna Arfeuille • 05/25/2023 at 16:07 • 0 comments

This is the idea for our design: we generated some sketches to see the expected shape of our product Fungi Sound