DK Citizen Science projekt til Landart-generator, New York

Posted on April 11, 2012 by Borch

Deltag i dansk citizen science projekt.
Bæredygtig Land-art projekt i New York vind 50’000$

2 arkitekter søger ingeniør/naturvidenskablig indput til en konkurrence om at lave bæredygtig energi og kunst i en park uden for NY. De laver alt arbejdet, men vil gerne have lidt input fra folk der ved noget om teknik, elektro, mekanik, programmering, energi, bio, anything…

se flyer her:

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1238967/Samlet-LAGINY-FLYER.pdf

læs mere om projektet her:

http://www.landartgenerator.org/competition.html

“Hack your own yoghurt”

Posted on March 9, 2012 by Borch

Martin Malthe Borch from BiologiGaragen have been invited to do a talk about DIY-BIO and hacking / “Reclaiming your own yoghurt” The talk will take place the 29th of Marts at Brønshøj bibliotek. it will be in Danish. Address: Frederikssundsvej 175, 2700 Brønshøj.

The event is hosted by Demoteket.dk.

Read more and join the event here: http://v.gd/zH99y2

Spread the rumour..

The theme is Open Source Food. Borch will talk short about do-it-yourself biology (DIY-BIO) and the perspectives in reclaiming your yoghurt, microbiology and demonstrate how to make yoghurt, and “rugbrøg”, dark danish ryebread. There will also be a talk about collecting your own herbs and plants.

Yoghurt Incubation, the last testing and preparations before the 29th of marts

baking "rugbrød" - testing and enjoying microbiology

Danish Virtual Lab

Posted on November 5, 2011 by norfeldt

I know this is Danish, but the idea about this project is that it’s too expensive to teach young people about how real science is done. So they have made this virtual lab that allow the students to perform virtual experiments.

Virtual Lab from Iben Julie Schmidt on Vimeo.

I think that this project shows the need for cheap DIYBio that allows people to learn-by-doing.

What’s up with DIYBio-Boston?!

Posted on October 1, 2011 by norfeldt

So I (Norfeldt) are in Boston (USA) for the next couple of months to do my master thesis. This is the city that to my knowledge gave birth to the expression DIYBio (the concept itself, I believe, has been existing long before this city was build – but that’s not the topic for this post) and a podcast about hackerspaces and DIYBio.org was the first time that I heard about this culture. This led me to find other people interested in DIYBio and we ended up founding BiologiGaragen.

The postcast also led me to know about SystemBiology which is why I’m here doing my thesis. But it didn’t take me long to find a DIYBio group here and I thought it might be interesting to make some “guest” posts about what’s up with DIYBio-Boston.

The group is small like in Denmark with 3-4 active members and is located in a hacker space called Sprout. They have claimed their little space as a lab and are just trying to collect as much equipment as possible. Unfortunately they are about to lose their equipped mobile lab which Mac Cowell (one founder of DIYBio.org) will take with him to his new home (can’t remember the city he is moving to). We wish him the best of luck spreading the joy of DIYBio there. So DIYBio-Boston is in many ways very similar to BiologiGaragen

I showed up a Sunday to help out with their bottling of some IPA Beer they made themselves from a beer kit. It was a very fun way of spending an afternoon and discussing cool future projects. I’ll leave you some pictures from the day and keep you posted on what’s happening in the space.

DIYBIO code of Ethics

Posted on June 11, 2011 by Borch

The DIYBIO community are these days discussing Values, Ethics and codes of conduct..

http://diybio.org/codes

Martin Malthe Borch from BiologiGaragen participated in the London meeting, where a first draft was made. The code will be finalized (hopefully) and discussed Tuesday at the American meet-up

We hope that when it is released we will be able to more easy communicate our ideas about:
– knowledge sharing and transparency
– recognize the wonders of the complex living world we live in
– we know we have to take care, and we are doing every thing we can..

and hopefully this will get the discussion away from bioterror and into all wonderful future possibilities..

Colony count App

Posted on June 11, 2011 by Borch

ColonyCount beta build 1 has now been released.
You can try it out by download it from your Android phone (requires Android 2.1 – update 1 or later) here http://www.colonycount.org/

There are still known bugs and it has only been tested on a HTC legend – so expect a few hiccups.

Any feedback is appreciated on feedback@ColonyCount.org – but as my time is limited you should not expect any reply.

A little information about the project:

ColonyCount is a small phone app that can assist when counting colonies on agar plates. Counting is done by taking a picture, tapping screen to place tags on colonies (cfu) and finally type in input properties needed to perform various calculations on the data. Current version supports calculation of sample concentration and ration of different colony types. Images can be saved in a project structure that enables calculations across multiple plates and sharing of project data and results by mail.

The app will be released on Android Market in a version that is free, full-featured and ad-free – but users will have the option to purchase a version to support further development.

Feel free to forward this mail to anyone that might find this interesting ..

Regards
Mogens Hvidtfeldt,

BiologiGaragen featuring in “LifeScience insight” magazine

Posted on March 4, 2011 by Borch

An article about BiologiGaragen.org and DIY-biology in LifeScience insight magazine: p42.

http://www.e-pages.dk/raskmagasinet/66/altpdf/raskmagasinet_66.pdf

Getting the Good Laboratory Practice (GLP)

Posted on March 1, 2011 by norfeldt

Just wanted to share this video showing how a Thursday night @ BiologiGaragen can be.

Playing with making agar dishes

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BiologiGaragen Lab1.0

Posted on February 17, 2011 by norfeldt

We got ourself some space!

If you are interest in seeing where we have our Lab1.0 in Labitat you can see this proposal video.

But feel free to drop by @ Labitat (H.C. Ørstedsvej 5, Kælderen, Frederiksberg) and check it out in real life. We have small meeting every Thursday around 20, but please come early and start during some DIYBio!

Learn the Syntax of Life! 2nd lecture

Posted on February 9, 2011 by norfeldt

BiologiGaragen has just begun a new course that is FREE to attend.

And we will continue the succes of the first lecture by having a second lecture!

Course name: Learn the Syntax of Life!

Gold: Learn microbiology and gain insight knowledge of life. After completing the course you should be able to take the next course: Jailbreake Life!

Minded: Newbies in the field of biology and chemistry (biochemistry).

When: Lecture starts @ 20:05 very Thursday

- but feel free to show up an hour earlier and get to know the place and people

Where: @Labitat – H. C. Ørsteds Vej 5, 1879 Frederiksberg C

Teacher: Lasse Nørfeldt and everyone who wants to share their knowledge (sharing is caring) .

This lecture will be about the bricks that makes a cell: proteins, fat and carbohydrates. There will be some hands on and organoleptic learning. And you will discover what this machine simulate

Why? This will make it SO MUCH easier to understand why organisms behave as they do and how we can control them.
(there will always be a Why? for each lecture – else there is no point of learning it (don’t believe in the desert scenario [If you are in the desert and need bl.a. bl.a.]))

Interested? Then show up!

After each lecture there will be working on our DIY Fumehood and incubator projects that should allow us to make some cool hands-on experiments. We will also try to make some cool DIY-Bio tools of some LEGO NXT MINDSTORMS.