Re: [DIYbio] I want to DIY a Stirred-Tank Bioreactor

Hi to all,
I am happy to see some really nice input on the bioreactors/incubators in this tread.

With Food Hacking Base (fhb) group we are slowly progressing on our experimental incubator, nice PCB design and kit version will be ready for CCC camp in August (13-17th), it will be a third generation, second recorded respectively. So far we will measure and control temperature - heating and cooling, I hope also for humidity measurement but not control yet. We work with air with cultures in containers in the box simply put it, using peltier elements to heat and cool, but the later we may change because of variety of reasons. Info about the project is on our wiki, updates will be uploaded soon

https://foodhackingbase.org/wiki/Experimental_Incubator

Submersible or liquid based reactors/incubators are very interesting too especially with larger experiments and for people who are a lot into the brewing or liquid culture handling - warming air around the vessel when you can heat/cool it directly doesn't make too much sense.

If you are interested in updates or joining the effort please consider signing for you experimental incubator mailing list

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Sincerely,

Frantisek



On Tuesday, February 3, 2015 at 9:07:43 PM UTC+9, mlp wrote:

On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 10:08 AM, Cathal Garvey <cathal...@cathalgarvey.me> wrote:

The third is, I think, not our job. While a kind-hearted volunteer can offer to help a noob organise a project, ultimately arranging stuff like timelines, project management and BOMs is overkill for "being welcoming, friendly and helpful".

Overkill for a human to walk newbies through every single time, to be sure ... but in keeping with your "the first two are literally scriptable," these aspects, too, have some automatable components.

The very first thing that comes to mind is MediaWiki templates. (Of which I wouldn't be surprised if there already are some for, say, BOMs, on OpenWetWare; Cedric and I did the inventory on the Biolab Brussels page directly into MW.) Ultimately it's too much work to handhold everyone through *populating* a project plan ... but, having tackled a large project in a new area to me (planning, scripting, and filming a video tutorial series for a software library I wrote) and gotten some help from a professional educational designer, I have to point out that forms help *a lot*, just in terms of keeping a lot of new ideas neatly organised.

The other thing this brings to mind is that if you are a parts vendor, building and hosting free design tools is the commoditise-your-complements pattern: your free thing brings customers for your actual business (parts) to your door. IDT customers might recognise this as the SciTools model.

Cheers,

--mlp