[DIYbio] Re: DIY Labware review

Wow!  Great resource!  Looks like a lot of well spent time and effort went into this.  Thank you.

A couple suggestions... I'd try to make it less confusing to worldwide audiences by using USD instead of Euros and using the decimal point "." as the decimal separator.  Currently it seems to be a bit of a mix.

It's kind of hard to read "usually in sizes for 0,5, 1,5, or 2ml and falcons (conical centrifuge tubes)".

You might suggest overhead stirring as an easier alternative to magnetic stir plates.  It's relatively easy and a lot cheaper to use a regular burner/hot plate with an overhead stirring apparatus.

Another helpful addition might be sections on techniques to get around the use of expensive equipment.  I've actually seen smart people mentally stumped by the lack of, or waste time waiting for, a stir plate.  That might seem silly, but a picture of a stir rod might actually save a few people some effort or expense.

On Sunday, April 17, 2016 at 7:31:44 AM UTC-7, bostjan wrote:

Hello everyone!

This is my first post, so let me introduce myself shortly, I'm Boštjan and while a trained Biologist, I'm new in the DIY bio community. I work at IRNAS Institute, where we are setting up an open biolab/biohackspace, which is located in Maribor (Slovenia). Together with my colleagues (who are mainly engineers) we are setting out to develop DIY lab equipment, which will be comparable to the commercial props in terms of functionality, but much more affordable. To not "reinvent warm watter", we started making a review of existing DIY equipment and how it compares to the commercial counterparts, whether it is feasible to make etc. 

You can find it on github: https://github.com/symbiolab/bio-labware/blob/master/000_bio-labware_overview.md

Hopefully we will soon be able to publish some designs of our own. The review is not completely finished yet, but with the development of DIYware, let's hope it never is. In any case, maybe some of you will find it interesting, I know that there are many collections of DIY stuff available already, however, we tried to structure it a little in terms of methodology and add some context. I would very much appreciate any comments and suggestions for improvement, as we probably missed some things and perhaps misrepresented others. I wish you all a very pleasant weekend!

Cheers,

Boštjan