[sudo-discuss] Fwd: Biology/Microscope/Programming/Art/Education Hack-A-Thon

[Cere Davis]

Hey Folks.

See thread below.  We have a cool proposal to do a fun cross-disciplinary
activity in trying to build DIY microscopes with CCL and Sudo from a
talented maker guy from San Jose.  Would Sudo be willing to collaborate on
this?  I, as a sudo member, certainly would.

-Cere
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From: Patrik D'haeseleer <patrikd at gmail.com>
Date: Mon, Jan 22, 2018 at 5:56 PM
Subject: Re: Biology/Microscope/Programming/Art/Education Hack-A-Thon
To: Thomas Zimmerman <tzim at us.ibm.com>
Cc: info at counterculturelabs.org, info at sudoroom.org, CCL board <
cultlabsboard at googlegroups.com>


Hi Tom - sounds like a great idea! We do need to cap it at 50 and get Sudo
involved as well, since that is our max occupancy for the space that we
share with them.

I'm not sure info at sudoroom is the best email to contact them though - any
Sudo members following this conversation?

Patrik


On Jan 22, 2018 3:50 PM, "Thomas Zimmerman" <tzim at us.ibm.com> wrote:

Hi Sudo Room and Counter Culture Labs;

I'm organizing a biology/microscope/programming/art/education Hack-A-Thon
as part of my work in the Center For Cellular Construction (a consortium
UCSF, SFSU, UC Berkeley, Stanford, The Exploratorium and IBM Research, see
https://ccc.ucsf.edu/).

*Is this something we could do at Sudo Room and/or Counter Culture Labs? *We
are planning it for a *Saturday or Sunday in mid-April for about 50
participants, free *with registration for crowd control and to get a good
mix of people and backgrounds. We want to attract the same kind of mix of
people that go to Sudo and Counter Culture Labs; scientists, tinkerers,
DIYs, programmers, biotech professionals, hackers, artists, teachers,
educators, and citizen scientists.

We will provide about 15 microscopes, 3 different kinds (5 of each); a $20
USB optical with zoom and a wooden adjustable stand, a $10 laser projection
microscope and a $50 novel lensless stereo microscope based on the
Raspberry Pi (a microscope with it's own OS that runs Python and OpenCV!!!)
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SzNjJ8_zT-A and
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xm750WtlFN0), parts to build and modify
these microscopes, some example Python image processing code, links to free
imaging tools (e.g. Fiji ImageJ https://fiji.sc/), some hacking materials
(cardboard, hot glue, wood), slimy pond water (full of all kinds of tiny
fascinating creatures), and samples of plankton from
https://www.carolina.com/  Participants are encouraged to bring their own
slimy water and microscopic creatures (no pathogens please, my motto is "if
you can't drink it, don't bring it" ;).

The general goal is for participants to team up and produce something
(physical device, code, art work, movie, sound/music, slide show, etc) to
help make biology accessible to people using microscopes, code media (art,
music, sound, video, image, internet, multimedia), or whatever participants
can think of.  We are especially interested in plankton; to raise awareness
of the complexity, beauty, variety and vital role they play in our well
being (they provide 2/3 of our oxygen, are the largest sequester of carbon
from the atmosphere, and the baby food for practically every species of
fish. However, these are suggestions, as hackers will probably have their
own view of what they want to do, which is the point of holding a
Hack-a-Thon, to encourage creativity and experimentation!

FYI I'm a hacker/inventor myself and spend a lot of time going to schools
to turn kids onto STEAM (https://makezine.com/2009/06/
23/make-contributer-thomas-zimmerman-h/ )
Regards,

Tom

Thomas G. Zimmerman
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