Fwd: [london-hack-space] Re: Biohacking talk
Bryan Bishop
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From: martind <dek...@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 6:01 PM
Subject: [london-hack-space] Re: Biohacking talk
To: London Hackspace <london-h...@googlegroups.com>
The talk was impressively great. Thanks Sara and Bugs -- this was the
best event of any kind I've attended in a while. I hope the video
recording
turns out well; ustream didn't work I think.
It conveyed the excitement of this new DIY biology frontier, and
highlighted that the London Hackspace has all the knowledge/resources
to start making interesting things. It was also a great introduction
to the mechanics of genetics, and the tools researchers use. (Many of
them are quite simple in principle.)
Doing any of this will require patience though -- lots of basic things
aren't there yet. DIY bio is still a very young field.
Random links from the talk:
http://bioweathermap.org/ -- collaborative project that maps
geographic & temporal distributions of microbial life
http://biocurious.org/ "the community lab for citizen science"
http://groups.google.com/group/diybio-london local interest group (now
dormant)
Several of the projects mentioned used Kickstarter for initial
funding. (They're often based in California.) Bio weather map uses
Instructables to explain how to make your own measurements.
On Sep 18, 6:04 pm, Sara Tocchetti <s...@oblo.ch> wrote:
> hello,
> in case i have camera nothing super hightech, but should do it.
> i'll bring it by...looking forward!
>
> have a nice evening and eventually an anti procrastination slice of cake!
>
> see you
>
> sara
>
> 2010/9/18 Bugs <1.bugs.bi...@googlemail.com>
>
> > Hi all,
>
> > Several people have requested filming and/or discussed filming. I
> > don't have any equipment to do this, so does anyone have a camera
> > they'd be willing to bring along?
>
> > Cheers,
> > Bugs
>
> > On Sep 8, 11:24 pm, Tuur <meneert...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > i'm still very interested but won't be able to make it before the 23rd
>
> > > (here's something I did a while ago, bridging biotech <>
> > electronicshttp://
> > openwetware.org/wiki/Citizen_Science/The_Urinomics_Project)
>
> > > On Sep 8, 2:55 pm, Bugs <1.bugs.bi...@googlemail.com> wrote:
>
> > > > Fair enough, I didn't know about that. Wed 22nd?
>
> > > > On 8 Sep, 14:41, Hikey <hacksp...@hikey.org> wrote:
>
> > > > > Hi Bugs,
>
> > > > > The 23rd is the Open Source Hardware User Group event with a speaker
> > > > > from this very HackSpace!http://oshug.org/event/4
> > > > > Wouldn't it be a shame to clash with that?
>
> > > > > Hikey.
>
> > > > > On 8 September 2010 14:23, Bugs <1.bugs.bi...@googlemail.com> wrote:
>
> > > > > > Hi all,
>
> > > > > > We've (arbitrarily) decided on Thursday 23rd September at 19:30.
> > Wild
> > > > > > times, excitement and molecular biology. Oh yes.
>
> > > > > > Hopefully this is OK for everyone?
>
> > > > > > I'm unlikely to have time to look into screencasting / filming etc
> > > > > > properly; is anyone willing to volunteer to give it a go?
>
> > > > > > Cheers,
> > > > > > Bugs
>
> > > > > > On Sep 3, 1:19 am, martind <deks...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > > >> It may also be worth considering screencast software; you're going
> > to
> > > > > >> do the editing in digital anyway. Don't know if syncing then
> > becomes a
> > > > > >> problem.
>
> > > > > >> On Sep 3, 2:01 am, "Nigel Worsley" <nig...@googlemail.com> wrote:
>
> > > > > >> > > What I'd like to get in the future is to split a VGA output
>
> > > > > >> > I have a 4 way VGA splitter.
>
> > > > > >> > Nigel Worsley
>
> > > > > --
> > > > > Lionel Lemariéhttp://www.hikey.org
--
- Bryan
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Bryan Bishop
From: Bugs <1.bugs...@googlemail.com>
Date: Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 4:31 AM
Subject: [london-hack-space] Re: Biohacking talk
To: London Hackspace <london-h...@googlegroups.com>
I'm glad people enjoyed it - laptop issues aside, it was good fun for
me too and the disucssion afterward was great.
I mentioned that someone in my lab is working on making mutants of
fluorescent proteins, trying to shift the frequencies of the light
they absorb/emit to make them more useful for imaging technologies. A
slightly scaled-down version of this might make an interesting medium-
term project for the group... it'd involve some playing with bacteria
and DNA extraction (easy), a reaction similar to PCR (but I don't
think we need the thermal cycler; I need to check details), and
growing the bacteria on plates. For the analysis, we need to precisely
measure the colour of bacterial colonies growing on a plate... maybe
build a lightbox, take photos under standardised conditions and find
or write some code to analyse the colours in the images?
When I get a chance -- probably this weekend -- I'll have a proper
think about it and put some notes up on the wiki. I'll stick my slides
up as well.
Have fun,
Bugs
On 23 Sep, 17:31, Anil Bawa-Cavia <a...@quotesque.net> wrote:
> I can confirm ustream was working fine.
>
> The talk was excellent, thanks!
>
> ://abc
>
> On 23 September 2010 11:14, Jonty Wareing <jo...@jonty.co.uk> wrote:
>
> > On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 04:01:03PM -0700, martind wrote:
> > > The talk was impressively great. Thanks Sara and Bugs
>
> > Completely agree, I was enjoying it so much that I missed a gig!
>
> > Also, thanks are due to Ben who turned up with enough video/recording
> > gear to run a small broadcasting studio!
>
> > --jonty
>
> --
> Anil Bawa-Cavia
>
> http://www.quotesque.nethttp://www.stdio-london.com
Bryan Bishop
From: Bugs <1.bugs...@googlemail.com>
Date: Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 6:24 PM
Subject: [london-hack-space] Re: Biohacking talk
To: London Hackspace <london-h...@googlegroups.com>
I've been contacted by a guy from Nature, working on an article about
biohacking. He's very keen to speak to someone tomorrow (Friday) who's
involved with the hobby/scene/whatever. If this is you, let me know
and I'll pass him your contact details (or vice versa)
Email below:
Dear Bugs,
My name is Geoff Marsh and I am a reporter at Nature. I am doing an
interview with Heidi Ledford for the Nature podcast about her opinion
piece on DIYBio. I would like to also meet someone in London (where I
am based) today or tomorrow, who actually does DIYBio, preferably in
their garage/lab. Would you know anyone suitable for this? If so it
would be great to have their contact details, telephone if possible as
my deadline is looming.
Many thanks,
Geoff Marsh
On 28 Sep, 15:41, Ben Reyes <b...@benmatthew.net> wrote:
> I'll try to get the video up on YouTube/Video as soon as I can. It's
> currently been a hectic weekend/week. Most of video has been recorded by
> uStream here:http://www.ustream.tv/channel/hackspace-bio-hacking
>
> I have to try and pull the video off ustream and combine it with some of the
> stuff on tape and on the HDD.
>
> - Ben
>
> On 25 September 2010 15:33, scary boots <scarybo...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> > I worked hard to provide that background noise, I will be very offended if
> > you cut out my stupid comments.
>
> > Scawy
>
> > On 25 September 2010 15:15, martind <deks...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >> Ben,
>
> >> let us know if you'd like help editing/transcoding/uploading/etc. It's
> >> potentially a lot of work for just one person.
>
> >> It may also be OK to keep it simple and not spend too much time
> >> polishing. The space isn't perfect as a recording environment; the
> >> lighting wasn't great, and there's a lot of background noise. Instead
> >> of spending ages cleaning it up it may be fine to leave as is, and
> >> make sure we can provide a better recording experience next time.
>
> >> I imagine there's also a fair amount of audio engineering experience
> >> available if that's needed for post-processing.
>
> >> m.
>
> >> On Sep 25, 2:03 pm, Kussic <kus...@chaos6.net> wrote:
> >> > So where's the video then?!
>
> >> > On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 8:35 PM, Adrian Godwin <
> >> artgod...@googlemail.com>wrote:
>
> >> > > Also, that vendor has a few interesting bits for sale ..
>
> >> > > On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 8:23 PM, Adrian Godwin <
> >> artgod...@googlemail.com>wrote:
>
> >> > >> ooh, they look fun. And near Widget, so we could avoid the crazy
> >> postage.
>
> >> > >> I had something a bit bigger in mind but if they're potentially
> >> useful I
> >> > >> might have a bid.
>
> >> > >> -adrian
>
> >> > >> On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 12:32 PM, Nigel Worsley <
> >> nig...@googlemail.com>wrote:
>
> >> > >>> What do you need in a thermal cycler (ie size, temp range,
> >> precision)
>
> >> > >>> No idea, but there is a pair of them on ebay:
> >> > >>>http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=160484739255
>
> >> > >>> Nigel Worsley
>
> --http://twitter.com/3enhttp://benreyes.com