Charles Darwin USB Flash Drive

Graeme Smith and Tom Catling

Materials: PLA, 10ml Acrylic, Black Card, 8Gb Memory Stick

Size: 15cm high.

Darwin’s bust printed from a 3D file, which has been converted from its original binary code, as shown on the left, into a genetic code, as shown on the right. A USB stick embedded within Darwin’s head encodes his 3D likeness in a format ready to be stored into DNA.

© UCL, Institute of Making/Robert Eagle

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