[DIYbio] Re: [diybio-boston] diybio open hardware community?

There's now DIY hardware communities which promote everything as open (http://sharism.org/en/presents) ... they call it "gifts of knowledge". These operate a copyleft hardware design shop (http://en.qi-hardware.com/wiki/Ben_NanoNote) which document everything from board schematics, build process to Bill of Materials. Microscopy with complex lens arrangements might be a little tricky for them unless you want lens on a fibre. Costs are reduced through a book build commit to minimum size orders before ordering components and production.

Lawrence
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On Sunday, 1 April 2012 06:24:55 UTC+13, Bryan Bishop wrote

Date: Sat, Mar 31, 2012 at 11:50 AM

Subject: Re: [diybio-boston] diybio open hardware community?
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I'm actually looking at building my own modular microscopy system from scratch.  Modifying premade microscopes is definitely cheaper, but much less flexible if you want to add filters/optics/etc. for fancy imaging techniques.  I'm starting my design by building a research-quality scope first and then figuring out how to minimize the costs to make it more affordable.

My DIY fluorescence microscope probably runs around $2k is my guess -- about an order of magnitude cheaper than competing microscopes by Olympus/Nikon/etc., but still too expensive for individuals.
http://asymptoticdesign.wordpress.com/2012/03/10/diy-scope/

I'm also workign on software to go with it:
http://asymptoticdesign.wordpress.com/2012/03/29/openscope-software-v1-0/

I'm currently working on documenting the fluorescence imaging and adding a confocal microscopy extension to it, and then it's going to be all about how to minimize costs.

nathan

On Sat, 31 Mar 2012, Christopher Saenz wrote:

No but let's get on it. I am relatively new to stuff at sprout. I went a couple of times but then got busy  finishing my degree. I just graduated and now can dedicate some time to this stuff. I polished up the epi the last time i was there. what were you looking at doing with microscopy?

chris


On Mar 31, 2012, at 12:05 PM, nathan lachenmyer wrote:

Does anyone know of any open hardware communities; especially ones that are diybio oriented?  I'd like to find a community to both share and collaborate on open hardware tools for biology, but most of the openhardware communities I can find aren't really science oriented.

I've been working on a few projects (in particular, open source microscopy) and would be interested to find other people to check out/test/etc. my projects with.

Thanks,

Nathan

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Date: Sat, Mar 31, 2012 at 11:50 AM

Subject: Re: [diybio-boston] diybio open hardware community?
To: diybio-boston@googlegroups.com


I'm actually looking at building my own modular microscopy system from scratch.  Modifying premade microscopes is definitely cheaper, but much less flexible if you want to add filters/optics/etc. for fancy imaging techniques.  I'm starting my design by building a research-quality scope first and then figuring out how to minimize the costs to make it more affordable.

My DIY fluorescence microscope probably runs around $2k is my guess -- about an order of magnitude cheaper than competing microscopes by Olympus/Nikon/etc., but still too expensive for individuals.
http://asymptoticdesign.wordpress.com/2012/03/10/diy-scope/

I'm also workign on software to go with it:
http://asymptoticdesign.wordpress.com/2012/03/29/openscope-software-v1-0/

I'm currently working on documenting the fluorescence imaging and adding a confocal microscopy extension to it, and then it's going to be all about how to minimize costs.

nathan

On Sat, 31 Mar 2012, Christopher Saenz wrote:

No but let's get on it. I am relatively new to stuff at sprout. I went a couple of times but then got busy  finishing my degree. I just graduated and now can dedicate some time to this stuff. I polished up the epi the last time i was there. what were you looking at doing with microscopy?

chris


On Mar 31, 2012, at 12:05 PM, nathan lachenmyer wrote:

Does anyone know of any open hardware communities; especially ones that are diybio oriented?  I'd like to find a community to both share and collaborate on open hardware tools for biology, but most of the openhardware communities I can find aren't really science oriented.

I've been working on a few projects (in particular, open source microscopy) and would be interested to find other people to check out/test/etc. my projects with.

Thanks,

Nathan

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