Basic Toolkit for the Basement Biohacker
Basic Toolkit for the Basement Biohacker
Laying hands on the supplies for most hacks we cover is
getting easier by the day. A few pecks at the keyboard and half a dozen
boards or chips are on an ePacket from China to your doorstep for next
to nothing. But if hacking life is what you’re into, you’ll spend a lot
of time and money gathering the necessary instrumentation. Unless you roll your own mini genetic engineering lab from scratch, that is.
Taking
the form of an Arduino mega-shield that supports a pH meter, a
spectrophotometer, and a PID-controlled hot plate, [M. Bindhammer]’s
design has a nice cross-section of the instruments needed to start
biohacking in your basement. Since the shield piggybacks on an Arduino,
all the data can be logged, and decisions can be made based on the data
as it is collected. One example is changing the temperature of the hot
plate when a certain pH is reached. Not having to babysit your
experiments could be a huge boon to the basement biohacker.
Biohacking is poised to be the next big thing in the hacking movement, and [M. Bindhammer]’s design is far from the only player in the space. From incubators to peristaltic pumps to complete labs in a box, the tools to tweak life are starting to reach critical mass. We can’t wait to see where these tools lead.
Taking
the form of an Arduino mega-shield that supports a pH meter, a
spectrophotometer, and a PID-controlled hot plate, [M. Bindhammer]’s
design has a nice cross-section of the instruments needed to start
biohacking in your basement. Since the shield piggybacks on an Arduino,
all the data can be logged, and decisions can be made based on the data
as it is collected. One example is changing the temperature of the hot
plate when a certain pH is reached. Not having to babysit your
experiments could be a huge boon to the basement biohacker.Biohacking is poised to be the next big thing in the hacking movement, and [M. Bindhammer]’s design is far from the only player in the space. From incubators to peristaltic pumps to complete labs in a box, the tools to tweak life are starting to reach critical mass. We can’t wait to see where these tools lead.
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