This week Professor Christine Morrison at the Colorado School of Mines shared a picture on twitter in which she was using 2-liter plastic pop bottles to culture bacteria in a shaker instead of using glass 2L Erlenmeyer flasks which cost ~$100 each. For those who are skeptical, there are a lot of papers about growing […]
FED3, an open source Feeding Experimentation Device that you can DIY or just buy!
The Feeding Experimentation Device v.3 (FED3) is a smart pellet dispensing device originally designed for training mice on nose-poking tasks. Contributors to the product include Lex Kravitz, Sophi Kravitz, Bridget Matikainen-Ankney, Andrew Hardaway, Mohamed Ali, Katrina Nguyen, and Filipe Carvalho. FED3 is battery powered and designed for home cages. It collects information on nosepokes and […]
UC2 CoreBOX: Flexible Instructional Microscopy for $250
CoreBOX is a neat open resource for teaching microscopy and optics from the folks at UC2, Swen Carlstedt, Benedict Diederich, Barbora Marsikova, Rene Lachmann and others. The setup was designed for the “Principles of Light Microscopy” Course at MPI-CBG in Dresden, and is extremely user friendly as a result, even giving estimations of time for […]
A DIY $125 liquid–liquid separator
Separating mixtures of immiscible liquids is a critical process in flow chemistry. Andrew Harvie, Jack Herrington, and John deMello have written a paper detailing how to make a useful piece of equipment to separate immiscible liquids for just $125. The project makes use of 3D Printing, a drilled out block of aluminum, a positional servo […]
MiCube: A modular fluorescence microscopy framework
miCube, not to be confused with µCube, is an a open and modular framework for the design and assembly of florescence microscopy optical devices, including devices with TIRF and widefield as well as an advertised confocal capabilities. The miCube has a peer-reviewed manuscript demonstrating it’s performance written by Koen Martens, Sam van Beljouw, Simon van […]