This class was a two day exploration using electronics to ask questions about nature. While exploring around Las Cruces Research Station, the team made some interesting observations while probing resistance of different plants including bamboos, agaves, palms, gingers. Among the observations made were that different parts of the plants have different resistance but not all of them were stable. It was found that bamboo had wildly fluctuating resistances and the team set out to try and measure that using an LED, with dimmer light equating higher resistance. Unfortunately that was not possible with the resources given as there was too much resistance for the LED to light up, the team decided to switch to using a speaker, which yielded much better results with lower pitch representing higher resistance.

Another part of the experiment was to analyse the conductivity of fallen leaves using the same method as above. Twenty leaves of varying sizes and colours were collected and tested. Resistance was measured from three spots on each leaf:  top-top, top-middle and top-bottom. The average from those three values were then taken to determine the resistance of the leaf, resistance was measured using the tonal frequency of sound produced when the leaf was probed. The findings showed that waxier and fleshier leaves tended to be more conductive.