10 weeks ago a fresh group of people started following the BioHack Academy with close to zero knowledge about biotech and/or digital fabrication. Regardless they were brave enough to take up the challenge to build, use and share a biolab from scratch and develop a personal project. You can take a look at the final results of the participants in Amsterdam and Tehran by watching the recording of their presentations on http://www.vimeo.com/channels/bha2/ or check out their documentation sites on http://biohackacademy.github.io/bha2/participants/.
In case you are interested in following the course yourself, you can sign up for the next edition that will start on February 23rd. All the materials are open source and freely available online: http://biohackacademy.github.io. You can follow the course on your own, or register at a partnerlab to be guided through the course. Apart from Amsterdam, there is interest to start a group in Sao Paulo (Brazil), Alberquerque (US) and you can start your own partnerlab too.
More information and registration in Amsterdam: http://ww.waag.org/bha
Starting a partner lab: https://waag.org/en/news/biohack-academy-call-partner-labs
Here are some pictures of last week's event too: https://www.flickr.com/photos/waagsociety/albums/72157661382746442