The course ladder
Four courses. Each one opens the next.
Two ways in, biology or electronics, that meet in the flagship build, then climb to real lab mastery. Jump straight to any course below.
Tier 1 · Entry · biology
Intro Mushroom Cultivation
Grow your first mushroom from a liquid culture, and learn the sterile technique everything else builds on. No electronics.
What you'll learn
- Sterile technique: still-air box work, sanitizing your space, and avoiding contamination
- Inoculating grain jars from a liquid culture syringe
- Reading colonization, spotting contamination early, and moving to your first fruiting chamber
Tier 1 · Entry · electronics
IoT / ESP32 Maker
Build and program a real sensor-driven environmental controller. For makers and coders, no biology required.
What you'll learn
- Wiring temperature and humidity sensors to an ESP32
- Programming basic automation: fans, humidifiers, and heat mats triggered by sensor readings
- Logging and viewing your environmental data over Wi-Fi
Flagship
Tier 2 · Integration
Smart Incubator Build
Where biology meets electronics. Build a fruiting-capable smart chamber, code its brain, and start a live culture with timelapse.
What you'll learn
- Combining a fruiting-capable chamber with the ESP32 controller you build and program
- Starting a live culture with clean technique, on camera for timelapse
- Tuning your chamber's climate as the culture colonizes and fruits
Tier 3 · Mastery
Advanced Lab Skills
Agar, cloning, and making your own liquid culture, so you never buy genetics again. The gateway to the community lab.
What you'll learn
- Pouring and reading agar plates, and isolating clean tissue for cloning
- Making your own liquid culture from a clone, so you're not buying genetics again
- Troubleshooting contamination and keeping a healthy culture library over time
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