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Biomaker Meetup 17 Aug: qPCR teardown and no-code programming for IoT in the lab

This month alongside our usual projects we had "advanced Biomaker.org" activities with Steph Norwood, including new training on IoT for the lab, LoRa and other technologies using "no-code" programming tools so anyone can quickly build functional devices for science.



qPCR Teardown

We also tore down a qPCR machine, this is the type used for COVID testing and is quite expensive so rarely available for tearing to pieces, but event host Jenny Molloy replaced her research group's recently so it was a good opportunity to explore under the hood of the old one.





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