[DIYbio] Re: Interested in Automated Cell Culturing?

See the Dunham Lab Chemostat manual for the ultimate bio machine.
   http://www.google.com/search?q=dunham+lab+chemostat

I've suggested building a continuous flow culturing system for the local biohacker lab though have mostly received "what for?" so far since the experiments planned are one-offs not continuous or evolution.   Also search back in the archives for the controller board I proposed which I called "the sensomatic".    These aren't exactly "desktop culturing machine" though they are the start.

BTW there are a couple low cost desktop culturing machines already sold mass market for $50-$200 range, maybe we can list them all?
 
 - bread maker.. = yeast

 - yogurt maker..  = yeast

 - diy beer kit = yeast  ; though I haven't seen a "machine" just a manual kit which requires a lot of human labor so far. Does a "beer machine" exist?

 - aquarium automated dosing setups = algae ; though again not a complete machine as needed here, could add specific sensors and pumps.

Also I think it'd be fun/interesting to take a cheap/discarded bread maker and replace the control panel to add more bio culturing functionality.  At a minimum they would make great tabletop incubators for single-flask operations - replace the mixer bar with a magnetic stir bar.

The ultimate in automated culturing would be a tiny wireless sensor module which could be dropped into a flask, which is also autoclavable, and reports OD, pH, temperature, and CO2 or other gas.  It's a big engineering challenge on multiple fronts.


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On Wednesday, July 3, 2013 9:11:19 PM UTC-7, Nathaniel Chen wrote:

I have always wondered if a desktop cell culturing machine would be feasible or useful for DIY biologists. I think it would be interesting to simplify some aspects of a wet lab into a black box sort of device. 

Has anyone else considered this / would anyone have a use for such a device?

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