Welcome to BioMekka Updates
A new place for shorter build notes, technical changes, wildlife sightings and progress from inside BioMekka.
“You can experiment with it in the shed — but it isn't coming indoors.”
The shed became its first testing ground, where foggers, rain mechanisms and increasingly ambitious ideas could be tried without threatening the furniture.
By the second tank, it looked less like a damp experiment and more like something worth seeing. The ruling was quietly reconsidered, and the swamp tank was finally allowed across the threshold.
Several rebuilds later, BioMekka now occupies a permanent corner of the living room and generates its own rain, fog, wind, daylight and storms using custom hardware, sensors and software.
There will also be the occasional experiment, unexpected problem and bit of engineering that takes far longer than it probably should.
The main BioMekka site explains the finished systems and the bigger picture. Updates will follow the work behind them: what is being built, tested, improved and discovered along the way.
There is plenty happening, so this section should not stay quiet for long.