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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 JonathanCline in This Week in DIYbio, hardware on 03 21st, 2010 | No Comments
DremelFuge DIY-centrifuge Spins the Best... DremelFuge at Shapeways 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...
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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...
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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 JonathanCline in This Week in DIYbio, hardware on 12 30th, 2009 | 2 Comments
DIY Centrifuge using Dremel Tool... Cathal has designed a simple centrifuge using open source hardware technology, and you can order one yourself!  (For use as entertainment purposes only, of course; wouldn’t want anyone to save nearly a thousand dollars by not buying real centrifuge now would we?) Dremelfuge is a rotor designed...
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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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