You know, building a gel box is really so damn easy, that the only real question is how cheap and accessible we can make it.
For example, here's Joseph Elsbernd's $21 gel box:
Cheapass science – How to build a $21 gel box
Joseph and I built a gel box from some tupperware and stainless steel wires at the last Science Hack Day - and then did electrophoresis on some food dyes with a gel made from food grade agar-agar:
http://jelloshotelectrophoresis.pbworks.com
https://secure.flickr.com/groups/jelloshotelectrophoresis/pool/
Patrik
On Sat, Mar 16, 2013 at 4:49 AM, Ryan Bethencourt <ryan.bethencourt@gmail.com> wrote:
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> As a quick update, Marc, Craig and I are mostly leading the Open Biotech Lab charge but meeting sporadically on Fridays (although shifting more and more to Sunday's). The one major component we're missing is a gel box for gel's if anyone would like to help with constructing one, we'd love it, once we have all of the alpha prototypes we're looking at the possibility of an open source OS (probably through an arduino) to control the whole set up (which will be a lot of fun to hack!).
>
> Our aim is to make biotech more affordable for everyone and any and all welcome to help us :)
>
>
> On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 9:01 PM, Louis Huang <louis.huang@aegia.nu> wrote:
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>> Hey guys,
>>
>> I'm sorry I haven't been able to come to the open bio tech lab meetings, and I'm guessing this has been covered. However i was wondering how the cultures will be stored, mostly enzymes???
>>
>> Thanks and I hope this biohack works out!
>>
>>
>> Sent from my iPhone
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>> Louis T. Huang
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>> louis.huang@aegia.nu
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>> On Mar 15, 2013, at 5:11 PM, "Patrik D'haeseleer" <patrikd@gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Just to clarify (or further confuse - who knows)...
>>
>> There are actually a couple of somewhat interdependent efforts going on:
>>
>> - A number of us are trying to set up an East Bay DIYbio group, and so far we've been meeting on the last Friday at sudoroom - that's what Ryan was referring to.
>>
>> - There's a group of people at sudoroom working on designing an Open Biotech Lab kit. See https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Biohacking . As far as I know we've only had one meeting on this so far, but we should probably meet a bit more regularly.
>>
>> - There's also some other biohacking going on at (or by people associated with) sudoroom, including some really cool work with bacterial cheese that Marc Juul is working on. Marc is probably the best person to ask what else is happening.
>>
>> As far as I know, the only thing regularly scheduled is the big East Bay DIYbio meetup on the last Friday. If there is anything else scheduled, I'd love to participate - I'll try to drop by sudoroom at 6 tonight just to be sure...
>>
>> Patrik
>>
>> On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 4:53 PM, Louis Huang <louis.huang@aegia.nu> wrote:
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>>> Just to confirm, this is happening today at 6 @ sudoroom? Or just the last Friday?
>>>
>>> Sent from my iPhone
>>>
>>> Louis T. Huang
>>> http://aegia.nu/
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>>> louis.huang@aegia.nu
>>>
>>> On Mar 15, 2013, at 4:28 PM, Ryan Bethencourt <ryan.bethencourt@gmail.com> wrote:
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>>> Hey All,
>>>
>>> At the moment we're meeting every last Friday of the month (just before hacker happy hour) at Sudo room (with impromptu meetings throughout the month).
>>>
>>> We're still building up some regular infrastructure but we do have a mailing list on google groups and we're a sudo associated group :)
>>>
>>> Feel free to forward the mailing list info Tommy to you're friend:
>>> https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!forum/east-bay-diybio
>>>
>>> Nina's also putting together an additional wiki for us and the preliminary wiki is available on www.eastbaydiybio.org (so we finally have some web presence but it's still a work in progress!)
>>>
>>> R
>>>
>>>
>>> On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 3:48 PM, Patrik D'haeseleer <patrikd@gmail.com> wrote:
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>>>> Didn't know this was happening - is this a regularly scheduled meeting now?
>>>>
>>>> Patrik
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 3:35 PM, Anthony Di Franco <di.franco@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> 6 pm.
>>>>>
>>>>> On Mar 15, 2013 3:24 PM, "Tommy York" <tommy.york@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> A friend is super interested, and I vaguely remember there being a
>>>>>> meeting today, but I can't remember what time. Please let me know!
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Hack the planet.
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