Why There’s a Matrix in Ajinomatrix
- Gavriel Wayenberg
- 3 days ago
- 3 min read
(and why our kitchen lab sometimes looks like a tiny spaceship)
TL;DR: We’ve been quietly building a family of mini-ecosystems that run on sunlight, sip electricity, grow real food, and report their own vital signs. That “matrix” in our name? It’s the living network between energy → water → air → biomass → taste. We test it, measure it, and—when it’s delicious—eat the data. Hello, partners 👋 (NASA, ESA, JAXA, ISRO, Roscosmos, and SpaceTech friends… this one’s for you.)
The Ajinomatrix Idea, in One Bite
A kitchen-table R&D platform that turns small, affordable devices into autonomous micro-food loops—each a cell in a larger matrix. Link the cells, learn the rules, scale the flavor. That’s it. No magic, just rigorous iteration and a sense of humor about hose clamps.
We call the method ABED (Always Be Eating Data):
Run the loop (sun → battery → pumps/fans/lights),
Grow plants/mushrooms/aquatic life,
Log everything (schedules, humidity, flow, power),
Taste the outcome,
Repeat—with fewer leaks and better snacks.
What’s Working Right Now (watchable & reproducible)
Closet-Sized Smart Greenhouse (CSSGH) – A home-scale, solar-assisted greenhouse with smart irrigation and refill sensing. It’s tidy, teachable, and oddly photogenic.
AquapoNano (APN) – Nano-paludarium that’s achieving weekly recharge cadence under realistic living-room conditions.
F2/F3 Solar Fountains – Our “sub-perpetual” water movers. Tiny, frugal, and good at teaching us about energy buffers and real-world weather tantrums.
Shrooly – Controlled mushroom cultivation (Pioppino first), paired with sensory tasting. It doubles as a flavor factory and a humidity masterclass.
S1/B1 Aquatic Bowls – Art-meets-biology pieces exploring edible micro-ecologies and night-time energy profiles.
Media & short clips: you’ll find them sprinkled through Ajinomatrix Media productions; longer-form edits via Lurch Productions. We keep it light, we keep it honest, and yes—sometimes we celebrate a successful gasket like it’s a rocket launch.
Why Agencies & SpaceTech Should Care
These small loops let us study the exact trade-offs that matter off-planet:
Low mass/volume → everything folds, stacks, and fits on a shelf.
Low power → we budget watts like oxygen.
Low crew-time → autonomy is measured in days between interventions, not in hope.
Taste & nutrition → systems are only “closed” if humans want to eat from them—reliably.
We’re not publishing a blueprint of tomorrow’s galley (yet). We are publishing the rules that make one possible—validated by many little systems running in parallel.
What We’re Not Saying (and why)
We’re intentionally not disclosing certain design specifics, algorithms, or menu models here. Think of this post as our “open airlock” for partners—not a teardown for competitors. If your mission needs what we’re learning, we’ll show you the data that counts.
The Call: Let’s Co-Build the Tastiest Universe
Agencies & Prime contractors: slot our test cells into your analog sites and habitat mockups. We’ll provide the kits, the ABED schema, and the sensory pass/fail gates.
Startups (SpaceTech, BioTech, AgTech, Sensor/Edge AI): bring your modules. We’ll integrate, benchmark, and—if it’s edible—feature it in our sensory trials.
Universities & Schools: adopt a micro-loop, contribute datasets, and join a global comparison of autonomy per watt and deliciousness per gram.
Investors/Philanthropy: fuel the leap from “tiny loops” to crew-rated micro-menus.
Say hello: partners [at] ajinomatrix.orgPress & media: media [at] ajinomatrix.org
Why “Ajinomatrix” at last makes perfect sense
Because flavor doesn’t live in a single device—it emerges from the matrix of flows we can control: light, water, air, energy, biology… and the human smile at first bite. We’re wiring that matrix together, one modest, measurable loop at a time.
See you in the taste lab—on Earth first, off-world soon.
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P.S. If you enjoy timelapses of plants behaving like dancers and mushrooms doing wardrobe changes, the Ajinomatrix Media channels are… educational. And fun. Mostly fun.
(For the socials / preview text)
Ajinomatrix = energy→water→air→biomass→taste. We’re turning tiny, solar-sipping ecosystems into a matrix for delicious autonomy—measured, reproducible, and ready for partners. Agencies & SpaceTech friends: let’s feed crews that want seconds.
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