Posts by Jonathan Cline
Dremelfuge Classic loaded with tubes
The Do-It-Yourself-Dremel-Centrifuge, DremelFuge, now nearly meets the capabilities of the best centrifuges! As previously posted for DIYbio (in “Cathal has designed a simple centrifuge using open source hardware technology, and you can order one yourself!“), the DremelFuge is an adapter which turns a Dremel rotary-tool into a lab-quality centrifuge capable of use in various bioprotocols.
As Cathal states on the DIYbio mailing list:
“After a design revision which is now “official” and for sale on Shapeways, the Dremelfuge can hold tubes securely, with liquid load, up to the full speed of a Dremel 300. At a top speed of 33,000 RPM, this means the tubes experience about 52,000RCF (g).”
Dremelfuge Classic OpenSCAD solid model rendering
Dremelfuge Classic loaded with tubes
Rob Carlson discusses DIYbio and Open Source biology on The Economist
January 1, 2010
Jonathan Cline
Rob Carlson on synthetic biology: THE ECONOMIST
Rob Carlson states: innovators are necessary to create solutions to pressing problems – and these innovators often work with or come from interest groups such as DIYbio.
The Economist: “You can do a lot in your garage – A professor of biosynthesis on DIYbio / open-source biology, buying DNA online and the problem with patents”
Rob Carlson on synthetic biologyMany of us in the DIY realm rely on the open publications of the Public Library of Science at plos.org. 
You may feel surprised to know that PLoS has web icons which you can display on your own web page! Check it out, make your science blog or web notebooks “PLoS inside” to raise awareness of their efforts. Here’s how:
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