Here are some updates from our March Biomaker Meetup and an invite to RSVP to the next meetup on 20 April @ 19:30 in the Makespace Classroom
You can find more photos from Biomaker Meetups here.
Turning a £120 beer fridge into a programmable incubator for bacteria
This project is progressing well and Richard and Tony spent the evening taking measurements and drawing up a shopping list to try two different approaches to controlling custom temperature profiles. We also found an identical incubator for sale (not programmable of course!) as a lab instrument for£455 exc VAT - lab mark up alert!
In Biomaker Meetup @cammakespace last night we continued turning a £100 peltier-controlled beer fridge/reptile egg incubator into a programmable lab incubator with a data logger. Measurements taken, so we'll have components for prototyping at our April Meetup! pic.twitter.com/NzPUzdLDjG
— Jenny Molloy (@jenny_molloy) March 17, 2022
NEW PROJECT! Build a computer vision rig for imaging plant roots
Carlos discussed with us an idea for a new project merging hardware to take images and rotate a sample, computer vision like openCV and software to collect much better data on root development for improving plant science (and making it a lot less time consuming for the scientists who currently take a lot of manual photos!). We will have kit to get started with this at the next meetup.
Biomaker training and skill sharing
Ana and Storm made their Hello World Arduino debut working on LED control with no-code XOD. Noah got a soldering tutorial from Carlos and went on to attach the headers to his Raspberry Pi Pico. Biomaker Meetup is a great place to learn, even if you have no experience in electronics!
In a great example of skill sharing at Biomaker Meetup, @Kupkasmale gave @noahsprent a soldering refresher with the @cammakespace kit. We also discussed a great new project - if you like motors, images, machine learning and plant science, join us in April! https://t.co/UczBIa1YaI pic.twitter.com/wtICzmXmA5
— Jenny Molloy (@jenny_molloy) March 17, 2022
We have these fantastic Biomaker training materials available at all Biomaker Meetups for @cammakespace members and meetup participants to work through, with help on hand! Soon you too could be making all sorts of devices for science purposes (or others!) pic.twitter.com/GnHR5u4vwL
— Jenny Molloy (@jenny_molloy) March 17, 2022
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