We’ve covered cheap DIY PCR solutions a couple of times, but there’s always room for one more PCR device. PocketPCR from the wonderful GaudiShop is a $110 PCR kit. The project has a well thought out assembly detailed in this instruction manual, but it will require a tiny bit of soldering. The USB powered device […]
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Hack a kitchen scale for lab use for just $20
Common digital kitchen scales have a surprisingly high sampling rate in their sensor, but any data logging using a kitchen scale is limited to the sampling rate of the scientist writing down the data. But now, there is a preprint paper on hacking a digital kitchen scale to record data to a computer by D […]
Soda bottles as disposable culture vessels
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 […]
Shutters from Brandstrom Instruments
Charles-Anthony Fortin of photonetc writes in response to More DIY Opitcal Shutters, to tells us about Brandstrom Instruments. They sell self-restoring solenoids for as low as $250, and bare aluminum shutters for as low as $25.