Kai Sackville-Hii working on the microcontroller code and Colton Koop on the Raman and LIBs spectroscope projects.
Jovan Werbes, Lawson Coffield, Ben Kiddie, Kai Sackville-Hii and Léo Audibert, core members of the Canacompost Team.
Our homemade Raman spectroscope made from a defunt OceanLabs body and
Our first batch of BSFL, hanging out on Leo's desk.
Our first BSFL mating, something that can be tricky to trigger in captivity.
Garage colony with homemade lighting.
Main workshop, Leo Audibert's garage.
A few thousand larvaes from our main colony.
Final batch odf dried Black Soldier Fly Larvae sent to the Canadian Space Agency for testing.
Assembling and testing our first rotary valve, required to direct compost and larvae from one input to six possible outputs.
Solal Audibert and Adam Spilchen helping with stainless steel welding of the bioreactors.
Starting to assemble components on our prototyping frame.
Our nearly fully assembled system.
Our DIY Black Soldier Fly reproduction lights (requires 3 specific wavelengths) designed by Will McKnight and assembled by Leo Audibert.
Leo Audibert during final assembly
Ben Kiddie and Kai Sackville-Hii driving computer automation and low-level electronic control adjustments.
Automated sieve designed and built by Leo Audibert to separate compost from BSFL into 5 different levels of coarseness. To limit scope creep, the outputs were not fed back into the system, or specific outputs.
