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Posted by mac in Boston DIYbio, hardware on 04 21st, 2010 | 1 Comment
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...
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Posted by mac in Boston DIYbio, hardware on 02 25th, 2010 | 2 Comments
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...
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Posted by mac in Boston DIYbio, hardware on 12 13th, 2009 | 9 Comments
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...
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Posted by mac in Boston DIYbio, meetings on 12 2nd, 2009 | No Comments
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.
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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...
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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...
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Posted by jasonm in Boston DIYbio, DIYscience on 04 21st, 2009 | No Comments
DIYbio Boston at Cambridge Science Festi... Doing the infamous dna extraction If you’re in the Boston area, drop by the Cambridge Science Festival between noon and 4:00pm this Saturday, April 25, to visit the DIYbio table! We’ll be in the tent at the opening Science Carnival – see the Cambridge Science Festival’s schedule...
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