The rare macroscopic post: If you need to control the macroscopic motion of a digital camera consider Dynamic Perception. They used to be a DIY forum and in that spirit they still sell individual parts along with full pre-made systems. Better yet a lot of what they do is open-source.
More DIY Syringe Pumps: From DropletKitchen
We’ve covered making your own syringe pumps before, but we’d like to draw your attention to this amazing write up by DropletKitchen to make push-only syringe pumps. Check out DropletKitchen, on their GitHub showing their various projects.
A DIY 2-Photon Microscope for $50k
Here’s a fantastic publication on the plans for a open-source 2-photon by David Rosenegger, Cam Tran, Jeffery Ledue, Nin Zhou and Grant Gordon. The parts list they include hits $60k, but also involves a lot of stuff you already have lying around, like a computer to control the system. When you take that kind of stuff […]
Bitscope – Cost Effective Tiny Oscilloscopes
A PC based oscilloscopes that us a Raspberry Pi? Check out Bitscope. The micro and mini models come with their own software and make you wonder why electronics labs still use oscilloscopes.
Reusing Nucleic Acid Extraction Columns
If you find yourself trying to find cheaper ways to run mini (or other size…) columns, you should know that you can reuse them without fear of contamination! Nagadenahalli Siddappa, Appukuttan Avinash, Mohanram Venkatramanan, and Udaykumar Ranga describe the process of treating the columns with HCl for reuse in this paper. During Treatment by HCl the “regeneration […]