Maya Culpa

The Workshop Innovation Support Platform, or WISP, is a speech-based workshop and laboratory assistant being developed by Maya Culpa. The aim is to create a useful capabilities to make innovation and experimentation processes more efficient and easier to share. The hardware platform for WISP includes a Raspberry Pi 3, a webcam, a picam and a …

Tiny Acres is focused on designing and building controlled environment agriculture facilities. We are presently establishing a manufacturing facility in Columbus, Ohio that will produce such facilities using retired shipping containers. Maya Culpa is a co-founder and co-owner of Tiny Acres and provides overall technical direction and implementation.

Bioconversion is a term that means using a biological organism to convert organic matter (typically waste) into energy or food. In 2014-2015, Maya Culpa participated in early bioconversion experimentation and prototyping using Black Soldier Fly Larvae as a biological organism to turn food waste into high-protein, high-fat animal feed. Our efforts were successful and we are …

The Hydroponic Automation Platform Initiative (HAPI) is focused on creating an open source platform for automated food production. Everyone is welcome to participate and contribute to the project. The projects main focus is on system automation although it also generates designs for other systems critical to controlled environment agriculture including water filtration systems and solar thermal heating …