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Graphene lets make some

Toby Bell — Sat, 30 May 2026 04:17:27 +0000

had an idea to make graphene using bacteria , water surface tension , inert gas barrier -

Bio‑Graphene Printer

The Problem Graphene: strongest, most conductive material we know — but prohibitively expensive (\$60–\$200/ gram industrial scale). Coal & carbon sourcing: dirty, energy‑intensive, environmentally destructive. Need: scalable, clean manufacturing method for high‑purity carbon materials.
The Solution Bio‑Graphene Printer: Engineered bacteria grow continuous carbon film at a water–gas interface. Heavy gas blanket (CO₂ or argon) stabilizes surface, provides gentle pressure, and controls oxidation. Surface tension self‑aligns the film into monolayer. Lift frame continuously harvests sheet — regrowth begins instantly. Diagram: Process Flow [Gas Layer] <- CO₂/Argon blanket, stable & heavy [Film Layer] <- Bacteria deposit carbon film [Water Layer] <- Growth medium, nutrient reservoir [Frame] <- Conductive lift for sheet harvest
Why It’s Scalable Inputs: water, gas, bacteria → globally available, low cost. Production: modular tanks → scalable like brewing or paper production. Output: thin, conductive carbon film approaching graphene properties. Capex/Opex: orders of magnitude cheaper than CVD or mined carbon sources. Diagram: Tank Layout +-----------------------------+ | Heavy gas (Argon/CO₂) layer | |-----------------------------| | Nutrient medium + bacteria | |-----------------------------| | Carbon film at interface | |-----------------------------| | Harvest frame (cycle lift) | +-----------------------------+
What We Need
team
Impact Summary
Cost & Performance Advantage
CVD graphene: \$60–\$200/gram, high energy cost.
Bio‑Graphene: <\$5/gram potential at scale, low energy.
Market edge: Tunable properties, renewable production, lower cost barrier.
Potential Applications
Energy storage (supercapacitors, batteries)
Lightweight structural composites
Conductive coatings & membranes
Next‑gen electronics & sensors
Scalability Pathway & Market Value
Lab Scale (Months 0–6)
10–50 L growth tank.
Proof of continuous harvest.
Early carbon films (cellulose to conductive films).

Pilot Scale (Year 1–2)
500–5,000 L modular array.
Optimized strains, conductivity targets met.
Initial industrial partnerships for materials testing.

Industrial Scale (Year 3–5)
50,000–500,000 L production.
Global deployment near manufacturing hubs.
<\$5/gram graphene‑like product to mass market.
Market potential: At <\$5/gram, even 1% penetration of global graphene market = \$500M+ annual
opportunity.

Bio‑Graphene could disrupt: electronics, batteries, composites, construction, filtration.

Closing Line
“Why mine the past for carbon when we can grow the future?”

2 Symphonys in 1 day

Toby Bell — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 16:17:48 +0000

i wrote 2 full length symphonies ( 25 mins each ) orchestrated and published today

thus making me the first person in history to do so..

no.1

suno.com

no.2

suno.com

enjoy :)

took ABOUT 16 hours to be exact :)

Consciousness - Theory of Everything

Toby Bell — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 21:00:12 +0000

The First Note — A Theory of Everything
by DjBlackeye

We describe the Big Bang as an explosion. But explosions are violent, chaotic, destructive. What if that framing is simply wrong?
Consider this instead:

The universe didn't begin with an explosion. It began with a vibration entering a completely static environment.
And that changes everything.
Why vibration and not explosion?

Vibration by definition is repetition. A wave moving through space requires a before and an after. That gap — however infinitesimally small — is the birth of time itself. Not a consequence of time. Not inside time. Time and vibration are the same phenomenon expressed differently.

No vibration = no frequency = no movement = no before or after = no time.
One vibration enters the static and suddenly there is sequence. There is duration. There is time.

The chain that follows is elegant:
Vibration creates time. Time creates process. Process creates consciousness. Consciousness is the universe experiencing its own vibration from the inside.
And the note?

Every instrument on earth is tuned relative to A. Not because humans decided — but because we discovered it was already there.
The universe didn't bang.
It played its first note.
And everything since has been the echo. 🎵
— DjBlackeye, April 2026

Help - App into the store

Toby Bell — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 16:17:34 +0000

1 Year on, whats become,?

well,i made my splitter
worked better than all the commercial versions, which makes you wonder,

then i made my vocoder in suno,
you know,
the one that doesnt exist,
have a listen to anyone of the songs in this playlist : https://suno.com/playlist/f7d2b975-56ab-46b6-a05a-a9b7c025e152

then i made my werewolf AI video , which i was told was impossible
currently on today 18th March 2026 = 81,000 views

then i made the Ai dancer shuffle, again another imposibility at the time
( this one was quite clever using the CFMs )

then i made the best one yet the cheerleader moonwalk and shuffle

so we moved onto complex scene/camera real life transitions/3d environments

i built a kpop band,on suno ,

suno.com

which was copied by someone on youtube, and really starngely youtube gave me the first view, like it knew, and the video is amazing, totally blew me away, until i saw the last frame/thumbnail, and it had my secret watermark, in his new picture, lol..so0 disappointed he used my creation to seed his, i wouldnt of minded if he had credited me with the original creation, its not easy to create multiple faces inside one picture, obv i built it character by character. well shit happens evryone here knows that, just well..disapointing,

so i written an app, and everywhere i go they are asking a fortune for hosting / publishing to the APP store, does anyone know the best option?

its a simple translator , i want to make it available to the public - google is $25 apple = ridiculous....any help appreciated

toby

Ai DANCERS shuffle

Toby Bell — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 09:20:24 +0000

so i tasked myself withmaking my Ai dancers shuffle...

all done

another world first

https://youtube.com/shorts/wTlE2NOCfBA?feature=share

toby

Vocoder in SUNO ( i built it )

Toby Bell — Wed, 01 Oct 2025 16:45:13 +0000

hi all, i spent 6000 credits and 4 days building a vocoder in SUNO,

yeah yeah you say, bullshit, ok.. here are a few tracks... https://suno.com/s/i1yGiHObeKRWNRAh

https://suno.com/s/ly2uFUNWpAQY0NQt

i could show you, but seeing as im the only person in the world with it, probably best for me if i dont...its actually better than a hardware version as it a has NO NOISE at all, the carrier was the issue and caused me no end of grief, its totally promptable in my songs, and if you think i did some sort of uploading vocoder from like pro tools or studio one, then using it, just have a browse through my songs and you will find promptable vocoder in v4.5 , now that V5 is released it seems to have made it better, anyway im off to cause more mayhem and trouble,

just becuase someone tells you its not possible, doesnt mean you cant do it, if you try hard enough ... #NEVERGIVEUP #NGU

enjoy :)

toby

Continuity Frame Marker™ — the invisible glue of AI video.

Toby Bell — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 10:37:33 +0000

On September 16, 2025, I coined and defined the concept Continuity Frame Marker (CFM).

A Continuity Frame Marker is the first or last frame of an AI-generated video that is specifically designed to ensure the persistence of a theme, character, or design element through multiple generations. This marker facilitates the seamless blending of two scenes so that the transition appears natural and continuous to the viewer.

Why does this matter?

🎥 Persistence: It locks in character or design continuity across clips.

🔄 Seamless transitions: Scenes can merge invisibly without viewers noticing.

🛠️ Creative control: Artists and developers can stitch long sequences with reliability.

I’m releasing this idea openly so that other creators, developers, and researchers working in AI video can explore, adapt, and expand on it.

👉 Continuity Frame Marker™ — the invisible glue of AI video.

— Toby Bell

here is example

https://youtu.be/0CXC4-xXMIA
https://suno.com/s/A53BpgLsxhXl3ebg

Stem Separation and it was ME who fixed spelling in CHATGPT images

Toby Bell — Sun, 15 Jun 2025 20:01:05 +0000

ok so after getting annoyed with Chat GPT continually breaking my code, and switching to Claude ;i have managed to get stem separation down to 4.7 secs for a 24 bit 5 min .wav track, in dos

in windows its about 10 seconds, im using the demucs protocol,and cuda enabled.

the whole CHAT GPT thing really upset me, does it actively try to annoy you? Claude was the way forward, i m total noob to all of this, but it does seem all the complicated tasks have already been written in python by someone else, and what really fucks me off is that;

I WROTE A character recognition python program thats checks and helps CHAT GPT make words sensical, so you can thank me for the fact all your pictures have the correct spelling, as it used to just produce stupid words,and ridiculous characters, remember? lol.... thanks toby....

anyway ive got a load of shit to do, i also make music, i know you all super intelligent , so how come you didnt write the OPCR program???

well love to the community...and in the words i am most happy to see, ' no problems detected in the workspace ' see you soon
ps hers the code for the OCR

import os
import pytesseract
from PIL import Image

Optional: Set path to tesseract executable if not in PATH

pytesseract.pytesseract.tesseract_cmd = r'C:\Program Files\Tesseract-OCR\tesseract.exe'

Folder containing AI-generated images

IMAGE_FOLDER = 'generated_images'

Output folder for images with "readable" text

OUTPUT_FOLDER = 'sensible_text_images'
os.makedirs(OUTPUT_FOLDER, exist_ok=True)

Function to determine if text is sensical

def is_sensical(text):
words = text.split()
# Heuristic: At least 3 "real" English words
sensible_words = [word for word in words if word.isalpha() and len(word) > 2]
return len(sensible_words) >= 3

Process each image

for filename in os.listdir(IMAGE_FOLDER):
if filename.lower().endswith(('.png', '.jpg', '.jpeg', '.webp')):
img_path = os.path.join(IMAGE_FOLDER, filename)
image = Image.open(img_path)
text = pytesseract.image_to_string(image)

    if is_sensical(text):
        print(f"✅ {filename}: '{text.strip()}'")
        # Save a copy of the image to the output folder
        image.save(os.path.join(OUTPUT_FOLDER, filename))
    else:
        print(f"❌ {filename}: Unreadable or nonsense")

1711806640 seconds since the Unix epoch

Toby Bell — Sat, 29 Mar 2025 22:37:11 +0000

My adventure into the data universe has experienced many turbulent episodes,since my last post, what have i learnt, well, py....(something) needs to be pip installed before anything works, recursive loops are your enemy , using a virtual environement needs separate pips as well, VSCODE whilst extremely efficient, is very very picky about indentations, (;'\/} , you can google any error, and someones already had it, some of the newer librarys have deleted some of the older ( more useful ) functions, oh yes, btw we are not writing in python, we are now using TSX, lol, thanks, sfter completeing the front end in python, now its got to be react compatible, so we did it all again, and it works, after lets say quite a few not works, i have my frontend buttons communicating with my backend processes , got lovely waveform generators, microphone input, audio playback, the list goes on, and today actually marks a milestone, i exported my first cuda detecting stem splitter to a standalone .exe @2.2gbs , it takes approximately ( once loaded ) 10 seconds to split a 4 minute track into 4 parts using DEMUCS, and 30 with no cuda, : i have made a dos one that does it in 3.4 seconds, or 4.7 for 24 bit wav file , but that assumes you have everything installed :

2 months in approx ( see first post for realtimedata=true )

i have built my first working .exe that serves a useful purpose, i have had help from chatgpt all the way, which for a while in the middle had a very negative impact, it broke working codes, ( maybe to see if i had backups ) but whatever we over that now,
i know that everyone on here can see that i know as much about coding as you could write on the back of a postage stamp with a can of spray paint, but i will be entertaining for sure, every path ( must be defined in environment variables first, [as admin] ) , will lead to a new destination, and having my first taste of success,- ( no problems detected in this environment; ) and 'successful compile', can only be a positive step forward. in summary - im still shit at coding, but i understand how routes, call, apis, logging, frontend, backend, imports, functions, defining, widgets, and quite a lot else, but im not anywhere near this self stack init, malarky. prize if you know what the pic is from , ill give you a clue, its a videogame :)

Well I never thought this

Toby Bell — Thu, 13 Mar 2025 03:01:21 +0000

Crazy is my life story, i should really start here at the beginning, of what could be a crazy ride into the sunset, or fade into obscurity, i am 53 , have never written any code other than BBC basic, and somehow become the LEAD Developer, ( please note this is sarcasm ) at a project that , well could really cause some shit, good shit for people and humanity ( this is not sarcasm ) , fun and engagement, me , im skeptical, the concept, i think i will leave that until i have my prototype version ready, which could be a while, eventually i will need some people who know their shit, probably pay very well, and make you happy, how did it start? AI music generators, about a year ago i got in at the beggining and started to make AI music, its fun,but thats by the by.

Today i wrote my first code, with help , and it worked, nothing fancy, just a few buttons, like i said i have no idea what i was doing, but it worked... in react and nodes, and installing librarys, json x , ( halloween?) a myriad of commands, it didnt help the python installed INCORRECTLY and i went to version 3.11 , solved... the old directory location monkey jumped on my back, with my cd skills going into overdrive , and who knew you had to run npm start in the root folder , oh obviously everyone else in here...but yet

it worked, stage 1 complete, AI told me i have a 65% chance of success , rising to 90 if i can meet the parameters ., which are easier than making the code in my opinion, so if can get it running its game on...