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Encelia californica: HTGAA & Lego robotics' synthetic biology explorations (MIT Harvard 'How to Grow (Almost) Anything' synthetic biology course, an online laboratory course

 


HTGAA & Lego robotics' synthetic biology explorations


Hi Anushka, 

I'm getting an email thread started for "How to Grow 'Almost. Anything" synthetic biology course with Lego Robotics' kits 
(and possibly virtually too in a #RealisticVirtualEarthForLegoRobotics and in 1 #RealisticVirtualEarth)

What's Digby Usher's email address?

Best wishes, Scott


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Hello Scott,

The meeting ended before I could ask Digby about the timings. Maybe you can ask that and let me know. Both timings suggested by you and Digby are comfortable for me. Let me know what is decided. His email ID is digby.usher@lcc.arts.ac.uk

Thanks,
Anushka Shinde 

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Digby and Anushka, (David (Sun Kong) and Suvin (Suvin Sundararajan - 3D LEGO Builderhttps://fab.cba.mit.edu/classes/863.21/Harvard/people/Suvin_Sundararajan/index.html)), all, 


Greetings! Thanks for the great #HTGAA 

I'm getting an email thread started for "How to Grow 'Almost. Anything" synthetic biology course - https://2025.htgaa.org/ -  with Lego Robotics' kits 
(and possibly virtually too in a #RealisticVirtualEarthForLegoRobotics and in 1 #RealisticVirtualEarth)

Anushka texted me - 

Great! I reached out to Digby and he sent this message: Ahhh we’ll go by GMT then… my time in the middle 😂. Let’s aim for Tuesday 25th Feb at 16:00 GMT?  Or same time Wednesday 26th if the Tuesday doesn’t work.?

If that works for you both - drop me an email digby.usher@lcc.arts.ac.uk and I’ll put the invite in my teaching calendar

Let me know if the timing works for you I’ll communicate it to Digby


Tuesday 25th Feb at 16:00 GMT should work for me ... How might it work for you Digby in London especially ?

See you both then potentially ... and in what, via our HTGAA usual zoom - https://mit.zoom.us/j/95522544744 -or ? 

David, Suvin, and Digby how best to develop a "How to Grow 'Almost. Anything" synthetic biology project with Lego Robotics' kits (and possibly the Scratch programming language, as well as possibly even Python)?

Thanks, 
Scott






Digby Usher on Linkedin? 




Dear Digby and Anushka, (David (Sun Kong) and Suvin (Suvin Sundararajan - 3D LEGO Builder https://fab.cba.mit.edu/classes/863.21/Harvard/people/Suvin_Sundararajan/index.html)), all,

Could we even explore this in "How to Grow 'Almost. Anything" synthetic biology course - https://2025.htgaa.org/ - with Lego Robotics' kits 

(and possibly virtually too in a #RealisticVirtualEarthForLegoRobotics and in 1 #RealisticVirtualEarth)


using this INCREDIBLE language-to-reward system for interfacing LLMs FROM Google AI ... and for a synthetic biology HTGAA play project regarding - 

https://x.com/scottmacleod/status/1695117097293004945

How best with #LegoRobotics to develop #WUaSUniversityLegoRobotics #WUaSLegoKITS  for #WUaSHomeRobotics for free #MITOCW -centric #WUaSSTEM eg Bachelor PhD Master #WUaSDegrees in many languages w https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/es-293-lego-robotics-spring-2007/pages/syllabus/ in a #PhysicalDigital #RealisticVirtualEarthForLegoRobotics?

https://x.com/scottmacleod/status/1695117097293004945

Retweeting -

Introducing a new language-to-reward system for interfacing LLMs with robots using reward functions. Learn how the system’s predictive control tool enables users to teach robots novel actions using natural language inputs → https://goo.gle/44kjHXx

https://x.com/GoogleAI/status/1694086273689076170

AND with - 


Excited @WorldUnivAndSch for potential to grow a #RealisticVirtualEarth from #MITHarvard https://2025.htgaa.org/ #SynetheticBiology course eg #ForPipetting for #RealisticVirtualEarthForOpenTrons #RealisticVirtualEarthForLaboratoryAutomation How to Grow with #FilmToNDimensional Apps?

https://x.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1891893218612228445

https://x.com/WUaSPress/status/1891894117401063641



Retweeting -

I’m thrilled to announce that the application for the 2025 edition of our @medialab and global synthetic biology course, “How to Grow (Almost) Anything” is now open! Application link in thread 👇

https://x.com/davidsunkong/status/1876687155604631779

Getting complex, but lots of play opportunities :) ... and see this email - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2025/02/coast-redwood-sequoia-sempervirens.html - I just sent to 


Dear David (Sun Kong), George (Church), Peter (Norvig), All, (eg "David S. Kong" <dkong@mit.edu>, George Church <gchurch@genetics.med.harvard.edu>, Peter Norvig <pnorvig@google.com>, htgaa2025-TAs@media.mit.eduhtgaa2025-globalTAs@media.mit.edu, Alden Briscoe <abriscoe@brakeleybriscoe.com>, Byron Hann <byronhann1@gmail.com>, Donna Leet MD <donna.leet@ucsf.edu>, Robin Appleberry <robinappleberry@yahoo.com>), 



Best regards, thanks, more later, 
Scott 
Scott GK MacLeod
greater SF Bay Area, California, Pacific Time






Dear Digby and Anushka, (David (Sun Kong) and Suvin (Suvin Sundararajan - 3D LEGO Builder https://fab.cba.mit.edu/classes/863.21/Harvard/people/Suvin_Sundararajan/index.html)), all, 

Greetings! 

Regarding the timing of possible "HTGAA & Lego robotics' synthetic biology explorations" or what you have in mind, or similar ... 8 am pacific time (in which time zone I'm in) is I think 8:30 pm India Time, and 1600 or 4pm London time (GMT), and 11 am Eastern Time where MIT is ... Would Tuesday 2/25/25 at 4 pm work for you from London? Or what would you suggest? And since I think both you and Anushka have a design focus, and you're the HTGAA TA with an interest in Lego Robotics, what further might you suggest? 

here are some directions I head in - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2025/02/coast-redwood-sequoia-sempervirens.html - and regarding aging reversal and extreme longevity genetic drug therapies and in a realistic virtual earth like Google Street View with time slider (so perhaps dovetailing with Lego Robotics in a realistic virtual earth).

Best regards, Scott








Digby and Anushka, (David (Sun Kong) and Suvin (Suvin Sundararajan - 3D LEGO Builder https://fab.cba.mit.edu/classes/863.21/Harvard/people/Suvin_Sundararajan/index.html)), all, 


Explore further with Lego Spike Prime robotics' kits and for synthetic biology explorations? (It would be great if the emerging WUaS Educational Services' Stores with deliveries were operating in all ~200 countries to be able to get people such robotic kits - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html)

And Digby and Anushka, all, how to develop with a design approach a Lego Spike Prime robotics' kits' tutorial focus (with "CS First with Google at World Univ & Sch" CC-4 licensed https://csfirst.withgoogle.com/s/en/home learning the Scratch programming language) for students in India, in regions where India's 22 scheduled languages are spoken, and in the British Isles, - to matriculate into CC-4  MIT OCW-centric wiki World University and School WUaS  for free online from home WUaS Bachelor, AA, and IB high school / similar, and possibly also Law, PhD, MD and Master's degrees as well regarding #WUaSHomeRobotics and see the PS?

Looking forward to your thinking regarding next steps HTGAA & Lego robotics' synthetic biology explorations, possibly on Tuesday, Feb 25, 2025 at 1600 (4pm) GMT in London ... which is I think 8 am Pacific Time in California, and 8:30 pm in India (but please check your time converters).

Regards,
Scott




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