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11 Oct, 2011

A microcentrifuge for DIYBio?

Posted by: Brian In: research|science|technology

I have had this centrifuge for a bit, when I was looking for kit for molecular biology, this one stuck out as cheap and interesting. I have a few ideas to build on it, but that will need to wait for a quiet week. This innovative centrifuge that has been designed for Reading Biotech. What we [...]

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15 Sep, 2011

DIYBio11

Posted by: Brian In: science

Remember how I was saying the other day that this was the year of DIYbio? You don’t? Well you weren’t at scibarcamb? You missed the new debate between scientists that do stuff at uni/industry labs all the time and those that don’t. Anyway it definitely is the year of DIYBio….. for me and at least [...]

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Imagine you find a problem with your dataset the day before you submit your thesis. Could you regenerate it automatically? Ana is describing how we might deal with this by using scripts Costs may include more effort, need to learn new skills. Benefits are error reduction, reproducibility, standardization, and more. Dexy.it is the tool she [...]

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16 Mar, 2011

Biological games

Posted by: Brian In: research|science

A new range of ‘games’ has come out in the biological fields taht is around education or problem solving cellcraft http://www.cellcraftgame.com/ This is an educational game that introduces people to a simplified idea of the components and processes that occur inside a cell, that is producing proteins, finding glucose, finding nucleotides and repelling infection. The [...]

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Brian Degger is a technologist/artist, he writes, thinks and makes around themes of interactivity, biomimicracy, and collaboration

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PDF import and editing in openoffice
One function I have found useful in openoffice is the ability to import pdfs. This is possible by downloading and installing the pdfimport plugin. This means that you can import a pdf, edit it then output it at a lower resolution for screen. (2)

miniFM

miniFM
In the foreground is a Tetsuo Kogawa version (built during RadioCraftLab, during AVFest08) and in the back the remix by sonodrome (built last week at Sonodrome Central). Both assembled by me.
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Bioplastic
Jay Cousins and friends had a hackday around bioplastics and laser cutting. Making the bioplastic from starch and glycerin (see this link for more details) and then laser cutting them. Cool stuff, they were even making different color ones. This is important as people move from using commercially sourced plastic in their makerbots to something else. Plastic is expensive to buy for these machines, but it is all around. SO be it bio-plastic or post waste plastic, ways of reusing these provide a compelling reason to throw away less waste. It is amazing that these materials are coming out of the factories, to be used in domestic situations. Together with polymorph and sugru, there are a variety of materials to play around for wearables, for prototypes and one offs. Bring on the future, with peer production.

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augmented foraging - cool use of layar -

augmented foraging Originally uploaded by _foam A mobile phone guide to edible urban wild-food sources.
Amsterdam urban_ edibles is developing Augmented_Foraging, a  mobile phone guide to wild-food sources using Layar. Much better use of this program than finding property in Amsterdam (unless you live there of course)!
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