[DIYbio] Re: DIY Labware review

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