http://isea2011.sabanciuniv.edu/panel/hackerspaces-diybio-and-citizen-science-rise-tinkering-and-prototype-culture BioMaker Communities and Projects I have known and love Maker culture and the arts are embracing biology as a new frontier for exploration and innovation. This area is made more accessible through the availability of open source equivalents of common lab equipment, online recipes and commodity sequencing and synthesis. However accessible these technologies and [...]
Bringing semantics to make rare disease data interoperable. Primary immune diseases are rare, complex and plentiful. The most common is 1/2000 least common is 1/2000000 There are already 220 different ones, expected to rise. Phentoypes/symptoms are varied. Wouldn’t it be nice to teach a computer to understand PID. So teach the computer to understand phenotypes. [...]
18 Mar, 2011
Posted by: Brian In: Uncategorized
Giant Petri Dish Originally uploaded by Dr Brian As part of the Laboratory Life(Lighthouse Arts, Brighton) project “Infective Textiles” it was necessary to incubate calico panels of a regency dress pattern with bacteria. Usually bacteria are cultured in small plastic dishes called petri dishes. These contain nutrient agar to support the growth. With the [...]
25sg residencyPDF 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)
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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.
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Hackable Devices
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