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Welcome to the PRE-DIY BIO BLOG Welcome to my new blog about learning DIY BIO. Right now its focused on theory rather than technique so its more of a PRE-DIY BIO blog, but it will evolve as I gain knowledge. I figured that if I am going to be compiling information I might as well post it for others to see.
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tHIS POST IS A MESS. iT IS EDITED SEVERAL TIMES AND MAKES NO MORE SENCE. i HAVE NO TIME TO DO MORE ABOUT IT: bOTTOM LINE IS THAT THERE IS ATTACHED A ZIP-FILE WITH ALL i EVER DID INlINE-SENSORING FOR pICAXE! Chris the carpenter asked for picaxe code to line follower. First you have to hook up the sensors to the analouge in. That is a chapter for itself, but in the end you will have a value for each sensor; 0-255
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In a third-floor loft where programmers build Internet start-ups, Mackenzie Cowell is talking about the tools he and like-minded young colleagues are using to fuel what they hope will be the next big thing in biology. The list includes a cut-up Charlie Card, ingredients bought on eBay to make a kind of scientific Jell-O, and a refrigerator, just scored on Craigslist.com, that chills to 80 degrees below zero. Cowell is part of an effort called DIYbio — short for do-it-yourself biology — that aims to move science into the hands of hobbyists. It is starting by holding sessions where amateurs extract DNA, and attempt genetic fingerprinting using common household items and the kitchen sink. “It shows you how much science can be about duct tape and having a few screws in the right place,” Cowell said.
As Synthetic Biology Becomes Affordable, Amateur Labs Thrive - The Tech
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What is bioDIY? " Pimm – Partial immortalization
Posted by attilacsordas on January 24, 2007 I republish here my “manifesto” like article on biotech DIY, which I wrote in April, 2006 on Newsvine in order to see the thoughts behind the placenta stem cell project . Would you like to sequence your genome in your garage? To grow your stem cells in the kitchen-lab?
Amateurs are trying genetic engineering at home
Enlarge Meredith L. Patterson, a computer programmer by day, conducts an experiment in the dining room of her San Francisco apartment on Thursday, Dec. 18, 2008. Patterson is among a new breed of techno rebels who want to put genetic engineering tools in the hands of anyone with a smart idea.
Tweaking Genes in the Basement
In the 1970s, before the PC era, there were computer hobbyists. A group of them formed the Homebrew Computer Club in a Menlo Park garage in 1975 to trade integrated circuits and swap tips on assembling rudimentary computers, like the Altair 8800, a rig with no inputs or outputs and memory measured in kilobytes. Among the Club's members were Apple founders Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs. As the tools of biotechnology become accessible (and affordable) to a wider public for the first time, hobbyists are recapturing that collaborative ethos and applying it to tinkering with the building blocks of life. Eugene Thacker is a professor of literature, culture and communications at Georgia Tech and a member of the Biotech Hobbyist collective. Just as the computer hobbyists sought unconventional applications for computer circuitry, the new collective is looking for "non-prescribed uses" of biotechnology, Thacker said.
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Andy Grove, the co-founder and long-time CEO of Intel, threw down on modern biology . In a speech at the annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience , he challenges big pharma companies, many of which haven’t had an important new compound approved in ages, and academic researchers who are content with getting NIH grants and publishing research papers with little regard to whether their work leads to something that can alleviate disease, to change their ways. The peer review system in grant making and in academic advancement has the major disadvantage of creating conformity of thoughts and values. It’s a modern equivalent of a Middle Ages guild , where you have to sing a particular way to get grants, promotions and tenure…There is no place for the wild ducks . The result is more sameness and less innovation.
The conditions of a mass biotech DIY movement " Pimm – Partial ...
The idea of doing biological experiments with current biotechnological methods and conducting research projects at home is quite new. There are already many names in use referring to the same concept: bioDIY , home biology, biotech DIY, garage biology . We have a detailed case example which can be considered as the first registered, high profile biotech DIY activity starting the era of useful garage biology: Recently Hugh Rienhoff amplified his daughter’s DNA at home to help doctors figure out her genetic disorder. From the Nature cover article :Those starting to hack biology want to do for it what the web and easy to use tools such as the Arduino programmable controller have done for hardware hacking. That is make it easy to understand and fun to play around with. "You can get kids interested in electricity and physics because there are lots of kits that they can play with, but that's not true for biology," said Cathal Garvey, one of a growing breed of makers calling themselves synthetic biologists. For his colleague Brian Degger, a biotechnologist turned educator, getting people to play around with biology will help demystify DNA and stop it being seen as a something scary. Using only strong spirits and washing up liquid it is possible to separate DNA from pulped kiwi fruit. The detergent breaks down the fat layers holding cells together leaving the DNA to form a clumpy layer under the added spirits.
Tech Know: Life hacking with 3D printing and DIY DNA kits
That regard for the weather is one of the many things setting rocketeers apart from makers, hackers and other hi-tech hobbyists who typically practise their pastime indoors. A sight to stiffen the sinews of any red-blooded geek It is not just dampness that causes the problem, though that can short out delicate electronics and make rocket engines go phut instead of whoosh. One of the rarer ways that the weather can catch out a rocketeer was witnessed during the most recent two-day launch festival run by the East Anglian Rocketry Society - an event known as Big Ears. The society uses the fields of a farmer close to the village of Elsworth in Cambridgeshire. These have the advantage of being flat, which aids rocket recovery, and far enough from habitation to limit the risks for man, beast or home.
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One day, we knew, biotech would become so easy and so cheap that two guys in a garage could hack life in the way kids hack code. That day is now here. Exhibit A is this biohacking lab in a garage in Silicon Valley. Assembled from used equipment the kit includes two clean cell-culture hoods, an incubator, two robot sequencers, and lots of software packed into a suburban garage.