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Botanical Gameboy



Lemon battery a.ka. \"Voltaic Battery\". One lemon produces .9 volts. Amy wiring a network of lemon trees in hopes of powering the Gameboy. Pre-install. Lemons hooked up to multimeter to demonstrate varying voltages. Other fruits work too; watermelon, orange, plums, etc. It is of utmost importance that the lemons are very juicy, therefore we included a moisture meter in the piece.
Custom game: Count Volta by Amy Franceschini and Richard Mortimer Humphrey. Fruit battery demonstrations were given during the Botanical Gameboy debut: A kumquat powered calculator. Rene Deguzman became the proud owner of the Kumquat Calculator. Last seen, he was powering it with coffee. Rich measures the voltage of each lemon on the tree, he finds that since all the lemons share the same electrolyte, the voltage of one tree is almost equal to that of one lemon...
We came to the ill conclusion that we could not power the gameboy with the amount of lemon trees available, so we created a program that reacted to voltage changes due to people picking the lemons off the trees, or adding lemons to the pile connected to the + and - wires at the end of the sequence. Testing the teleo\ Stijn and Rich teaching the Teleo\ Video still of women teaching a young crane chick to eat from surrogate mother hand puppet.
Video Still. As people fed or starved the network of voltage (by picking lemons or adding lemons) the video would speed up or slow down. The video was such that the chick getting fed depended on people feeding the network voltage. Rich testing Teleo\ Custom gameboy could not be powered by lemon\
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