On the Saturday 5th Sep we visited the “Lab Robots” meetup at the Cambridge maker space. The format of the day was first there was a session of presentations, and then in the afternoon, there were some practical workshop sessions.
In the first session several talks were given including Ward Hills from IonScope about a generic lab hardware integration package (I offered to beta test), Attila Szantner about using Eve Online for pattern recognition, and Matt Wayland on using a lab robot made from a CNC router.
The workshop sessions were in 2 groups, the first group was to build an OpenPCR kit, and the second looked at an open Centrifuge project.
After that, the groups broke up and chatted, and we had a look at some of the projects underway at the Cambridge makerspace. Here Sam inspects their new “invisible bio-material”. We were assured it is very good.
Sam inspects Cambridge Makerspace’s new INVISIBLE BIOMATERIAL
I was in the group that was trying to build an OpenPCR from a kit. We run out of time on the day, and there were a couple of components missing, so I offered to finish the soldering at the London Hackspace electronics area, and this is the resulting PCB board for an OpenPCR (sans one missing ADC component) taken a few days later
I had a good nose around the Cambridge Makerspace, and they have a very impressive workshop. Lots of cool stuff.
notice the extravagance of their dust extraction. The lucky lucky b****ds.