Hey AtomJaay,

Thanks! I think this is a great suggestion and I’m currently growing Blue Oyster mushrooms out of a kit. I have a small business that does 3D printing and I’m currently looking for a way to sustainably dispose of my PLA which is about 95% of what I print. I think that mushrooms have a huge potential here. Do you have any links or resources that I can use to learn about using mushrooms for this sort of thing?

Regards,

Dane

Hey amaurer3210,

Thanks for doing these experiments. I saw this on reddit a while back and was immediately amazed at seeing a use for 3D printing I had never thought of! I hope your experiments go well as I would like to do something similar!

and then there is this

http://aem.asm.org/content/77/17/6076.full

Hi Laurits,

Check this guys:

http://matterlab.xyz/

Cheers

amaurer3210 – thanks for the puck-update! Will be awesome if you can get it to work. Could you possibly post results from “Experiment B” here? Would be very useful to know if woodfill is indeed yummy!

I’m “borrowing” the idea of the object being eaten by the fungus for some more hand-made stuff – hope you don’t mind :slight_smile: Casts in a mix of sugar (isomalt) and straw/wood pulp that contain mycelium or plant seeds which will *hopefully* be able to feed on the casts. Let’s see if it works… Not super-optimistic about the mycelium being able to survive the casting process + lacking oxygen while the cast object is still breaking down.

So, I’m doing hand-made stuff since I don’t have the time+confidence to improve on your woodfill experiment (my project has to be finished pretty soon). But! I would still love to do prints in some kind of compostable or environmentally harmless material. Something you could just leave in the dirt somewhere and it wouldn’t cause any trouble for plants, animals etc. Maybe the trickiest bit is that it needs to be something that’s pretty easily available. Anyone here have more suggestions than those already mentioned?

I was tipped that PVA is easily soluble; does anyone know if it’s also environmentally friendly?

Creastudiostore – thanks for the tip, MATTERLAB’s filaments look pretty interesting. Any idea if similar stuff is available right now?