diybio-boston April 2010 meetup: Microbi...
Fred Hapgood, Shawn Finney-Manchester, Marc Rogers, Laura, Keegan Cooke, John at sprout.
This month, Keegan Cooke brought materials to prototype several Microbial Fuel Cell kits he’s developing, I demoed my updated $50 arduino-controlled microscope, and Jason Bobe gave an update about the BioWeatherMap...
Posted by kenwei in DIYscience, Experiments, Groups, Los Angeles DIYbio, hardware on 03 2nd, 2010 | 1 Comment
DIY Bio Los Angeles – Workshop, Fe...
DIYBio brand petri dishes!
We had our first DIYBio workshop in Broad Hall on the UCLA Campus over the weekend. The student community from both north and south campus were involved, which included art and science/math majors.
Romie Littrell started things off with a short presentation on the concept...
Free electron microscopy...
ASPEX is a company that builds tabletop Scanning Electron Microscopes (tabletop SEMs). To promote their product, they are offering free scanning of samples to the world at large.
Rendering of ASPEX's tabletop scanning electron microscope.
You can see a gallery of some of the scans they have made on...
Posted by kenwei in Los Angeles DIYbio on 02 16th, 2010 | 1 Comment
DIYBio is in Los Angeles...
Los Angeles DIYbio Mission Statement
Found a publically accessible biological laboratoratory to act as a physical and informational resource for the community on the techniques to safely experiment and play
Conduct outreach to attract others outside our field: artists, kids, “the curious”
Do-it-yourself biology on the rise ̵...
Do-it-yourself biology on the rise - 20 Dec 2009 - SF Chronicle (pdf)
SF Chronicle reporter Juliane Guthrie interviews Tito Jankowski, Phil Ross, Jason Bobe, and Raymond McCauley about the DIYbio projects they are working on. They also interviewed Drew Endy about safety and regulatory concerns. The...
webcam microscope hacks at bosslab...
Shaunalynn Duffy, Alec Resnick, and David Thompson lean closer as the ucam's image comes into focus. The camera cost $10 and took 5 minutes to hack.
We hacked $10 webcams into microscopes, a la Hackteria.org at the bosslab + sprout. Yashas Shetty, Jason Bobe, Rich Pell, Myself, and others are planning...
h+ magazine: diybio movement takes on ag...
hplusmag - winter 2009 - cover "Hi there, Ray"
Parijata Mackey wrote an article for the Winter 2009 h+ magazine about diybio titled “diybio: a growing movement takes on aging.” She provides an overview of diy -hardware, -software, and -wetware, and gives shoutouts to some of the...
diybio-boston meetup at Sprout 22 Nov 09...
@molecularist blogged about the 22 Nov 09 diybio-boston meetup at sprout and recently posted a great little video of the tour. You can see us setting up Sprout and touring through the mobile lab. Read Charlie’s full post for more info.
Posted by mac in Boston DIYbio on 11 19th, 2009 | No Comments
The Boston Open Source Science Lab...
The Boston Open Source Science Lab (BOSSlab.org)
Hey DIYbio-Boston peeps,
It’s been a while!
I’ve been making progress on getting us a lab space here in the Boston area. I’ve acquired a shipping container that has a molecular biology lab built inside of it and am spinning up an...
Posted by mac in Boston DIYbio, Groups, San Francisco DIYbio, iGEM, meetings on 11 18th, 2009 | 1 Comment
iGEM 09 Jamboree DIYbio meetup recap...
A bunch of interesting projects ideas were discussed at the DIYbio meetup during the iGEM Jamboree 2 weeks ago – here are my notes:
Yashas Shetty wants to organize an international DIY microscope building session and subsequent videoconference for early December based on his DIY Microscope...
DIYbio is an organization that aims to help make biology a worthwhile pursuit for citizen scientists, amateur biologists, and DIY biological engineers who value openness and safety. This will require mechanisms for amateurs to increase their knowledge and skills, access to a community of experts, the development of a code of ethics, responsible oversight, and leadership on issues that are unique to doing biology outside of traditional professional settings.
- Doug: So what is the price of one of these things ordinarily?...
- Carlton: DIYbio ? Blog Archive ? Do-it-yourself biology on the ris...
- Lilly: The video worked for me yesterday (Firefox on OSX) - coul...
- Md Masudul Amin sohel: Dear sir/medam we are one of importer of Labrotar...
- Shelldon: Is there a site where I can get more information on the m...
- Bruce: The video worked for me yesterday (Firefox on OSX) - coul...
FriendFeed – diybio
- Andy Maloney: Haven't posted in a while but I think some people will be able to use a cheap microscope objective heater that is super easy to build and works fantastically. http://www.openwetware.org/wiki/User:Andy_Maloney/Notebook/Lab_Notebook_of_Andy_Maloney/2010/06/17/Temperature_stabilization Just ignore my extraneous notebook stuff included in the page.
- Balint: Gene design in less than 10 minutes! See video here: http://wp.me/ppY4a-aW
- Mike Chelen: Backyard Brains - DIY electrophysiology for $100 #neuroscience
- Andrew Perry: Kickstart my PCR! - http://maradydd.livejournal.com/513904.html (via http://ff.im/lMMMf)
- Mike Chelen: Fwd: Technology Review: $3 Microscope Plugs into Cell Phones - http://www.technologyreview.com/biomedicine/25286/?a=f (via http://ff.im/lEsT5)
- Mike Chelen: Fwd: via @huffingtonpost: BioCurious: The Bay Area Biology Collaborative Lab Space http://huff.to/crJuUh (via http://ff.im/lsldY)
- Andrew Perry: 3D printed gel box, "dremelfuge" (Shapeways | onetruecathal's designs) - http://www.shapeways.com/hisdesign?user_id=13282&ug13282[page]=1 (via http://ff.im/lkSjD)
- Mackenzie Cowell: openchemistry | Openchemistry makes chemistry learning content free, open and available to the world.
- Mackenzie Cowell: Fwd: Do scientists really need a PhD? : Article : Nature - http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v464/n7285/full/464007a.html (via http://ff.im/gV7FI)
- Mackenzie Cowell: Standard Virtual Biological Parts: A Repository of Modular Modeling Components for Synthetic Biology. [Bioinformatics. 2010]