Critical Kit Library

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Kits are talking, kits are intervening.
A literature review of existing bio and life science kits, related practices and practitioners. Non-comprehensive, non-systematic, non-chronological an alphabetised narrative of things structured from Critical Kits perspectives.

Early reviews led to the Arcade De Bruno a black box arcade cabinet designed by James Medd to play simple Bitsy games inspired by Science and Technology Studies

version tags indicate potential reviewing through making activity

Kit Literature Review

• 3DuF A microfluidic design tool for the Chrome browser, also works in Chromium.

• Algae Plastic article Studio Klarenbeek & Dros working with Atelier Luma on a proprietary bio-polymer that they 3d print plastics with, an Algae Platform comment I like how they interconnect projects in the atelier to the whole biopolitics of european rural identities and the Camargue region. This feels similar to DoES relationships to urban entrepreneurial, business and maker identities. Shame the polymer, based on spirulina, a blue-green microalgae, is top secret but the blog provides clues to the process. What’s interesting is that circular economy thinking appears to be behind the choice of algae “there is a strong network of spirulina farmers in the South of France.” contact Worth getting in touch. version Could we try make a homebrew bio-polymers in our 3d print work with the NMC? Do we need to meet materials scientists on campus and hook up with preciousplasticlancaster?

• archivist-in-a-backpack version An interdisciplinary version of this but with tools like soil analysis, foldscopes, Fly sampling mixing up the social with the biological to build biopolitical maps. Feels like this could be an intervention for parasite in a box.

• art-deck-a-collaborative-drawing-game version Drawing microscope observations on cards, then drawing your cards a re-empracticing of early microscopy

• Baden Lab Visual lab contributing to Flypi

• Biobits “cell-free technology to visualize the flow of genetic information and monitor transcription and translation in real time through fluorescence. This activity serves as an excellent interactive tool for learning the central dogma of molecular biology and exposes students to cutting-edge synthetic biology.” A kit that actually headlines itself as representing a dogma is interesting
  “The Central Dogma. This states that once ‘information’ has passed into protein it cannot get out again. In more detail, the transfer of information from nucleic acid to nucleic acid, or from nucleic acid to protein may be possible, but transfer from protein to protein, or from protein to nucleic acid is impossible. Information means here the precise determination of sequence,either of bases in the nucleic acid or of amino acid residues in the protein.” (Crick, 1958)

• BioBox The Steamhouse biomaterial project that is an extension of Materiom and an attempt to do maker based research in biomaterials with a commitment to bringing these practices to market. The link above is hosted on Distributed Design

• BioBricks Foundation Feat Artists in Residence Phil Ross comment Naive futurism of a Bio-Internet-of-Things

• bio-bricks-from-urine comment I like this, there’s no shortage of urine. Studio mates may not like it however

• Bio Bricks STS Paper Claire Waterton et al.s explorations of standards in constructing, disciplining and defining the biological

• Bio Digital Games Database Wim van Eck & Maarten Lamers Database of biogames. This is a good 2000’s overview.

• Bio Digital Game Papers Wim van Eck & Maarten Lamers Journal Papers for Biotic Games

• Bio Digital Game Papers Wim van Eck & Maarten Lamers Journal Papers for Biotic Games

• Biodesigned Twitter account promoting bio engineering projects like biohybrids with semiconductor components

• BioGun Handheld CNC alternative for biomaterials - a bit like a handheld 3D printer used in the 3D print Club. It’s basically a glue gun - which might be good to hack for wax extrusion.

• Bio-MEMS Similar to microfludics, but necessarily on the micro scale and without the miniturisation. In many ways a Gel Electrophoresis kit could be classed as this.

• BioMaterials at DoESLiverpool Critical Kits research crossing over into BioMaterials and Wearables Group at DoESLiverpool

• BioModd Basically a pre-pi version of Critter Compiler

• BioRxiv Preprint server for biology, operated by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

• Bixels comment Overblown but interesting deluxe kit attempting to bridge into IoT maker STEM/STEAM version In the spirit of how overpriced Makey makeys and Bare Conductive Touch Boards can be made on the cheap with an arduino UNO and some homemade foil voltage dividers and conductive ink (harder to DIY that), maybe make a DIY version of this. Do we really need branded pipettes to show our support of interesting educational ideas?

• Bots on twitter as organisms

• Bricolage Project Sophisticated Ars Prize Performance of live heart muscle cells grown from stem cell differentiation and grown over silk by Guy Ben-Aray

• CIDAR Hardware, Software, Wetware, Co-Design Research; All of the soft-ware-things in maker culture reproduced for bio makers in one place. Also on CIDAR git

• Civic Laboratory for Environmental Action Research (CLEAR) Feminist, anti-colonial laboratory that specializes in grassroots environmental monitoring of marine plastic pollution

• Colorimeter Another modular kit by [ioRodeo])() on kickstarter with some very detailed documentation with much more detail than my kit and many others

• Coral Crochet A meditation on the interplay between nature, mathematics and iterative construction, and also a response to the decimation of actual reefs by global warming.

• Cognition Kits Platform for doing app based cognition testing

• Crab Lab High end physics of many organisms locomotion across various environments

• Critical Concrete Lab investigating alternatives to concrete with some useful information on how to Grow Your Own. A more open approach than GIY Ecovative and more like this Instructable

• Critter-Compiler

• detecting-pathogens-in-sewage-sludge

• Digital Diagnostics Lacewing microfluidics using LAMP for SARS-CoV-2-RNA detection. 3D printer firm Figure 4 talk about it here this is like the synthesis of all our DIY projects we have been playing with and could be an important comparatory. Who’s to say no interleaving has gone into the Lacewing in their well meaning support for diagnostic surveillance in ‘Africa’? We have to be careful in being ‘technical assistants’ we don’t become ‘technical assasins’ See Thomas Sankara’s speech, “Discours sur le Front Uni Contre La Dette,” delivered at the 1987 Organisation of African Unity conference held in Addis Abada, Ethiopia

• Distributed Design Bringing kits in design and maker culture to market through curated online hub.

• DIY Microfluidics Tempest van Schaik (@Dr_Tempest) workshop on simple microfluidics with food coloring, tape and a scalpel blade.

• DNA Dots MiniPCR have a substantial 101 database on life science, the central dogma and contemporary bio-tech. How would you/should you include feminist technoscience here? This is a core tone of comprehensive DIY life science.

• DNA as memory storage

• Dolomite Educational Microfluidics From the LabSmith sales paper

• ENose for Sick Dogs Brilliant PhD research by Monica Staniek This looks like a critical kit (though the sensor head is proprietary)
  Example of research in the wild compared to more controlled lab work of secluded research

• ELISA The enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) (/ɪˈlaɪzə/, /ˌiːˈlaɪzə/) is a commonly used analytical biochemistry assay, first described by Engvall and Perlmann in 1971

• Ethoscope Node red and Pi camera setup for large insect observations ethologies over an array of 'scopes

• Flongle Nanopore Desktop mass gene sequencing for the desktop.

• Flypi 100EU Microscope make files on github

• Found Formats Hwa Young Jungs article on found formats with Nathan Jones

• Fungi as magic

• Future Flora - Gito Masello Hacking vaginal Microbiome

• GaudiLabs Extensive open source diy bio maker community projects connected to Hackteria. Many projects we’ve looked at in our bio kit literatures Projects summary

• Ginkgo Bioworks Bio design, engineering and production company using alot of contemporary design elements in the slick futuristic website. Feels like an Ars Electronica speculative design of 10 years ago made real. Interesting elements are Yasaman Sheri speculative paper diagnostics and her residency at Ginkgo she’s also part of the Synthetic Ecologies Lab at the Serpentine (2021)

• Gel Electrophoresis Standard kit for analysing gene expression on the benchtop.

• Gel Electrophoresis DIY DIY Instructable for a laser cut acrylic kit for analysing gene expression on the DIYBio benchtop

• GOSH Projects Open hardware projects list in G athering for O pen S cience H ardware

• greeningdigital.substack.com Adams greening digital blog

• growyourown.cloud DNA data storage engagement project by Cyrus Clarke Talks about responding to data warming and did cool engagement pop up at a Flower shop. Unclear if they actually did anything or it is just speculation.

• GIY Ecovative Grow Kit Proprietary materials and design. Beautifully made but cards close to chest, expensive

• [Hackteria](

• HandyFuge Ethan Li a bio-engineering PhD at Prakash Lab (They/them) put together a centrifuge for LAMP assay seperation. Interleaves with the PocketLAMP

• Harmonic Analyser Laser cut mechanical Fourier series analyser. Hardcore constructivist physics open hardware for the offgrid Oscilloscope crowd

• ioRodeo Smart lab technology DIY lab equipment really great site with open source designs and gear, made the DIY gel electrophoresis instructable

• Internet of Things Made of Gut Bacteria Flaky nieve article citing Raphael Kim’s research on bio iot-substratesHighlighting Opportunities and Challenges of Integrating Bacteria in IoT and HCI Raphael Kim’s research on bio iot-substrates with Tech Review

• HandyFuge Ethan Li a bio-engineering PhD at Prakash Lab (They/them) put together a centrifuge for LAMP assay seperation. Interleaves with the PocketLAMP

• Harmonic Analyser Laser cut mechanical Fourier series analyser. Hardcore constructivist physics open hardware for the offgrid Oscilloscope crowd

• ioRodeo Smart lab technology DIY lab equipment really great site with open source designs and gear, made the DIY gel electrophoresis instructable

• Internet of Things Made of Gut Bacteria Flaky nieve article citing Raphael Kim’s research on bio iot-substratesHighlighting Opportunities and Challenges of Integrating Bacteria in IoT and HCI Raphael Kim’s research on bio iot-substrates with Tech Review

• KiCAD Open Source PCB design and prototyping. Key software for Critical PCB workshop

• Lab On The Cheap As seen on the Adafruit blog, does what it says on the tin

• LabSmith Microfluidic Kits Commercial kits for microfluidics as featured in Yoland Fintschenko’s from LabSmith’s paper Education: A modular approach to microfluidics in the teaching laboratory This is a good potential comparison for Lab From A Chip; in conjunction with this interview

• LabView Another microfluidic simulation software.

• Lacewing microfluidics using LAMP for SARS-CoV-2-RNA detection this is like the synthesis of all our DIY projects we have been playing with and could be an important comparatory. Who’s to say no interleaving has gone into the Lacewing in their well meaning support for diagnostic surveillance in ‘Africa’? We have to be careful in being ‘technical assistants’ we don’t become ‘technical assasins’ See Thomas Sankara’s speech, “Discours sur le Front Uni Contre La Dette,” delivered at the 1987 Organisation of African Unity conference held in Addis Abada, Ethiopia

• LAMP DNA Diagnostics on Hackaday Full stack scientist and Maker David developed this project for Hackaday in Alternatives to PCR, later updating it for the Hackster covid response competition as the POCKET-LAMP It use the LAMP DNA amplification process which does not necessarily need as complex a ‘cold chain’ as PCR See on github

• LAMPore LAMP assay add-on for the Nanopore minION team “LamPORE is the first assay that the Company has developed in-house with intended use nostic applications, subject to relevant regulatory clearances that the Company is currently pursuing. Oxford Nanopore is planning to deploy LamPORE for COVID-19 in a regulated setting initially on GridION and soon after on the portable MinION Mk1C.”

• LAMP Shield
  Loop-mediated isothermal amplification (LAMP) shield for Arduino DNA detection

• m5stack

• making-sense-toolkit

• MaterialeX Little Pink Maker’s kickstarter

• Materiom Bio material and recipes we’ve experimented with at DoES Liverpool’s Wearable Meetups and in workshops with STEAMHouse

• Materiom Data Visualisations on biomaterials as compared to other manufacturing materials on a graph of Mega[Pascals](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pascal_(unit) (a metric replacement for psi pounds-per-square-inch) against Young’s Modulus a measurement of elasticity

• Ma.tt.er Bio design and materials via Steamhouse BioBox Project

• measuring-gamma-radiation

• Microbe Mosaic Super simple counterpart kit to MicroMart Note the differences between a $100 kit by mail order and the tiny amount of documentation; a critical kit includes so much more; and this is without any STS or Social Learning Theory

• Microbial-design-studio

• Mikroskopisk PacMan Erik Andrew Johannessen’s high end microfluidics, a key counterpoint for our Protests For Protists work. See a full video here and read the Vice article
  
  This at first looks like the ultimate bio game and a truly spectacular artwork. It is not a kit though but as biotic games are often distributed in kit form, it’s worth imagining what a kit version would be. Counterpoint to my Protests For Protists and LabFromAChip kit. Immediately inspires a re-mix MsPacMan in BLS: ie a DIY feminist technoscience flavoured Critical Kit version which I had thought about doing with Jackie Parry. Comparing a kit with a critical kit

• MinION Industry standard for portable genomics works with the Flongle

• MiniPCR Company famous for their mini pcr machines use on the International Space Station.

• MiProto Modular microfluidic prototyping product

• Mouldrush Raphael Kim’s Slime Mould gaming on twitch. Kim’s a great contemporary example of a practice somewhere between bio-art and bio-lab - Like Roland van Dierendonck they have very similar practices to Ross Dalziel’s and Anthony Hall

• Museum of Edible Earth Ars 2021 Prize winner more than 400 edible earth samples, mostly clay, such as, for instance, kaolin and bentonite, as well as chalk, limestone, volcanic rock, diatomaceous earth, and topsoil [museumofedible.earth](https://museumofedible.earth/

• Mushroom based leather article

• mushroom-inhalers-vaccination-replace-needles

• national-soil-map

• neuralnet

• OpenBehaviour Open source appraoches to behavioural analysis

• OpenCFU Open Source organism counting similar to imageJ etc. and the ethoscope

• OpenDrop Gaudi Labs open source electrowetting microfluidic automation. It ‘works’, essentially moving fluid about in a grid from up to 4 reservoirs. Seems like the open grid wouldnt prevent any cross contamination of samples. Also prepping a ‘cartridge’ isnt simply plug and play you need standardised surface tension amongst other things. High voltage. It’s really unclear as to what exactly could be automated and why. It’s an interesting way of controlling fluid digitally and it’s interesting how it makes you think of handheld gameboys which I reference in the SourdoughBreadBoy

• OpenPCR “A Thermocycler for Anywhere” Low cost DIY thermocycling for entry into PCR

• OpenWetWare Wiki

• Open-source Wax RepRap 3-D Printer for Rapid Prototyping Paper-Based Microfluidics Files, paper and summary on Wax Rep Rap Thingiverse

• OpenTrons Life science protocol automation, looking like 3D printer technology to automate pipetting

• Paper Phone version Detox from your molecular bioinformatics day job and think of how you can take your models into real social worlds

• Papercraft Spectroscopy Popular downloadable Paper Spectroscopy kit - a physics version of the LabFromAChip vinyl casting method using DVD fragments. Photon watching with the Spectral Workbench not large molecular ecosystems. Also used as an alternative to ShrimpCraft approaches to turbidity

• Parasite-Seeing Rod Dillon & Jen Southern’s non-human social media Parasite-Seeing Paper Now visible on the Lancaster site. My HDPEtra project referred to it

• Participedia US based but quite global database of participatory practices

• PhyChip Highly speculative series of papers on slime mould as computation substrate by Andrew Adamatzky

• Picroscope Instructable 3D printed microscope for pizero with openCV Euglena tracking. Wait long enough and someone will make the thing you are working on.

• PidgeonBlog Collaboration between Pidgeon Fanciers & Engineers and Beatriz Da Costa, referenced in Harraway’s Staying With The Trouble

• Plug 'n Play Synthetic Biology “Prototype teaching resource that allows audiences to learn about synthetic biology in a hands-on way” via Biomakespace Cambridge

• PocketPCR Gaudi Labs tiny open source PCR temperature control on github

• PocketLAMP David our favourite maker from Munich’s arduino based LAMP assay kit. Interleaves with the Handyfuge Started as a hackaday challenge, now a post-COVID hackster challenge

• Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) Process A Microbiology 101 Kit and process basic for manipulating and analysis of gene sequences. The PCR process amplifies and duplicates specific fragments of DNA target DNA fragments. Achieved through a series of controlled temperature enzyme reactions, using a heat resistant DNA polymerase like Taq_polymerase isolated from the infamously resilient bacteria Thermus aquaticus found in Yellowstone Park. Controversially this is a kind of forced open sourcing, to the ATCC US molecular biology standards of an organism discovered on US Park Service land (Yellowstone) Interesting that the Park service see this as the Great Taq Rip Off. For once bio-prospecting is exploiting the US state and Public Parks after centuries of prospecting that ripped apart indigenous civilisation in the birth of America.

• Poo Printer Rip off of Rod Dillon’s first science project

• Portable Genomics Ineke Knot’s website on genomics in the field; via a WILDLABS seminar

• Prakesh Lab Frugal science lab

• Public Practice

• Research In A Box an existing programme at the Lancaster Faculty of Health and Medicine, a key body of literature/kits to review and potentially intervene with.

• Riedel-Kruse Lab Ingmar is that DoES BLS mix of engineering and playful interest in biology , he seems less in the world than Manu. Analysing the main research interests of the group can see the clear relations of bio engineering;

• RNALater Store and stabilize RNA samples to analyse later. It’s a way round doing Point of Care (POC) diagnostics in field settings but it doesn’t actually help POC any as it needs to be analysed in a ‘proper’ lab

• Science Practice Bio venture stuff

• slime_mold_Andi A key kit/work by Raphael Kim’s * Soil Cards

• Soil Cards on Twitter

• Sound For Funghi Ars 2021 Prize winning Sound art for Funghi

• SourdoughBreadBoy A 100% non soldering DIY arduino based gameboy based on the Arduboy. A handheld feminist version of the ArcadeDeBruno
  appeals. This is the sort of format I’m thinking could be a response to Mikroskopisk PacMan and also is related to Bio Illuminator Badge
  Breadboy could be a 'platform for a variety of slide based experiments;

  • Simple protist protest environments
  • PDMS vinyl environments from domestic ‘capitalist ruins’
  • high end pacman maze; we could commission some detailed photolithographic moulds for PDMS production; could we establish a master mould, then reproduce moulds from that, then distribute into a community of moulders? Connect it up to a PCB group and feed in energy toxicity tools? So we trace the complete cost of a DIY endeavour?

• SPEDs Self Powered Paper Based Electrochemical Devices. Just on the DIY spectrum to develop paper based microfluidic point of care diagnostics

• synapse.bio

• Syringe Extruder Instructable The extruder jackie is experimenting with

• Tempest Van Schaik (did some DIY microfluidics

• Tiffin Tins Ok Sparks! First Critical Kit of radio and freshwater memory

• tiny-websites-have-no-server Pop up servers similar to Tor Toys?

• Tor Toys Speculative Tor based Fanzine Node by Ben Dalton

• Trashy Bags Charity looking water sachet waste related to our work with Charley

• UV-Transilluminator DIY UV illumninator Instructable

• waag toolkits

• wearable-biosensor-for-monitoring-vaginal-discharge Arguably more critical kits than the below

• Wearable Bio-Illuminator Sensor Badge Workshops DoESLiverpool Critical Kit for PCB badge culture meets bio art
  data-site

• Zimbabwe Bush Pump Made famous by the fluid love of AnneMarie Mol et al.

Biomaker Bio Science Spaces & Projects

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• Biomakespace Cambridge Fork of Cambridge Makespace with Cambridge Biomedical Campus support.
• Biorealize
  Ars winning automated transgenic lab hacking the microbiome with Turkish bagels. Fun but just IoT automation of basic microbiological practices
  FormaFantasma
  FaberFutures
  Ginko Bioworks
  Institute of Making
• Max Liberion feminist environmental scientist, science and technology studies (STS) scholar, and activist part of CLEAR
• Little Pink Maker We did a bioplastic workshop with her at DoESLivepool in 2018
• Lugae Santiago Fab Lab
• Materiom
• Matt.er.
  Material Source
  Other Biological Futures
• OpenCellLondon
• Prakash Lab at Stanford founded be Manu Prakash crucial to our use of Foldscopes
• Shellworks
• Shellworks at Dezeen
• Synthetic Ecologies Lab the Serpentine’s Bio Art Lab with Yasaman Sheri
• Waag Society Doing all of the things
• WetLab AND Festivals excellet Wetlab made with Super Slow Way, Assembly (not to be confused with Assemble) and Public Works
• WILDLABS
• Ystruder another syringe extruder but with sensing capability (autolevelling?) Source files on the Ystruder gitlab

Bio-artists & Makers

Artists & Makers particularly committed to biology in their work.

• Brian Degger North East Bio Maker
• Roland van Dierendonck Connected to Waag and slime_mold_Andi
  Ex scientist maker of mouldrush connections to Zoe at Inst. of Making and OpenCell London. He seems to be the main UK person for at least the game related elements of what Im looking at. Some great papers and projects on his biohackanddesign site
• Ana Dumitriu
  British artist who works with BioArt, sculpture, installation, and digital media to explore our relationship to infectious diseases, synthetic biology and robotics
• Anne Galloway twitter and Academic profile
  Human-animal relations; animal welfare; livestock agriculture; farming cultures and practices; multispecies design; design ethnography; science, technology and society.
• Cathal Garvey Biohacker and scientist. Worth noting Cathal’s early contribution to DIY Lab kit on Thingiverse, the bio and explaination of his practice and his 3D Printed bio model shopfront
• Raphael Kim
• Jasmine Marker
  German-born Belfast-based interdisciplinary artist working at cross-sections of bio-art and sculptural installation, guest at DisruptEncodeConsolidate
• Yasaman Sheri Bio Art & Design research
• Sanne Viser Material researcher and maker, via BioBox

Other Artists

• Tania Bruguera
• Jeremy Deller

Biopolitics and Geography

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Let’s put non-humans & micro-organisms on maps: they affect landscapes at scale as much as tides and weather. Projects that are part of mobilities to and a way of rethinking microbiology back into the landscape and entangled knittings of the social

• Coomassie Blues Starting point for some De-colonial Storytelling on the supply chain of the basic materials of microbiological practice. Like a Haraway Primate Visions for lab practice materials

• BlackBoxGolf Critical Kit prototype

• Critical Zones are part of Latours recent Fieldwork and in a forthcoming Critical Zones Exhibition

• Jonny Huck
  Digital Making/Software Development Geography

• Inside Soil performance lecture by Bruno Latour

• Parasite-Seeing project by Rod Dillon & Jen Southern exploring the mobilities and identities of the Leishmaniasis parasite and it’s disease vectors. Features various social media identities for disease vectors and screening processes like LDBob and spawned numerous papers & events and the Departure Lounge exhibitions that embody the diseases spread through insects, animals, labs, airports and humans.

• PaperJam Invited some local LICA researchers to jam with DomesticScience

  • Serena Polastri
    Tracing Tides Morecambe project. Big into maps, loved her perforated maps of Morecambe and assemblages of animated maps and memos. Talk to her about Latour’s Inside maybe
  • Liz Edwards working with Serena. IoT sprites and water environment sensing PhD
  • Ensemble environmental science group at Lancaster Made outdoor automated Tern lures and other stuff

• ProtestsForProtists Critical Kit prototype

• Soils as common goods? Pierre Donadieu , Elisabeth Rémy and Michel-Claude Girard The time has come to introduce soil into political and social debates in the same way as those relating to water, climate or biodiversity. This is especially true in urban and peri-urban areas where public and private actors largely underestimate the ecological functions and multiple social and cultural uses of soils.

Critical Making

• Cyberfeminism Manifestos Top 5 Handy
• Cheapjack Critical Kits Pinboard
• Critical Kits Symposium The meeting in Liverpool where this research was articulated
• Garnet Hertz CriticalMaking Zines
• Alternative Histories in DIY Cultures and Maker Utopias Useful call for papers; good direction for research. Calls for an ethnography of DoES with a critical-kit-making-as-method of material discursive interview
• For an extensive Reading List see Alternative DIY Histories Reading List
• Matt Ratto Matt coined the term ‘Critical Making’ in 2007 and works across humanities, engineering and Science Studies

Image processing

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• Artist Sam Meech is running an interactive video workshop on Lancaster University campus for BLS associates, researchers,i students and teachers. Isadora is potentially a handy toolkit for scientists to play: rather than the more full on heavy lifting of Fiji and scientific lab software like IdTracker. Rod Dillon and I invited him to run a workshop in Sept 2019

• Fiji batteries-included dist. of ImageJ

Inter Species Gaming

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• Bio Digital Games Database by Wim van Eck & Maarten Lamers

• Cryptoludology
  Desing for Inter Species gaming by Alan Hook at Lancaster

• MouldRush
  Mould Rush game by twitch.tv/mould_rush!

• Manu Prakesh

• stanford-bioengineers-microscope-features-interactive-microbes
  Ingmar Riedel-Kruse’s Ludoscope Microscope and games with photosensitive Euglena

• Topicbird (Jasper Meiners and Isabel Paehr) - Play Forward EXP_eriments & EXP_eriences that question virtual gazes also their wider project page is here

Microfluidics

• Art on A Chip
• BioGun Handheld CNC alternative for biomaterials
• CIDAR Hardware, Software, Wetware, Co-Design Research; All of the soft-ware-things in maker culture reproduced for bio makers in one place. Also on CIDAR git
• Microfluidics Pinboard
• Scale of the engineering literature US National Library of Medicine PubMed on microfluidics, this is just one library…
• DIY Microfluidics
• DIY Low tech Microfluidics The paper fluidics workshop I followed at DoES by Tempest van Schaik
• DoESLiverpool Blog Contains microfluidic stuff
• LabSmith Microfluidic Kits Commercial kits for microfluidics as featured in Yoland Fintschenko’s from LabSmith’s paper Education: A modular approach to microfluidics in the teaching laboratory This is a good potential comparison for Lab From A Chip; in conjunction with this interview
• Lab On A Chip Journal Royal Society of Chemistry Journal
• LEGO Microfluids Article and the research paper and on Hackaday post on LEGO fluidics
• Metafludics Open source repository for lab-on-a-chip designs
• OMIS Open millifluidic inquiry system OMIS Git
• Punchcard Microfludics Manu Prakash’s teams work.

Microfluidic Extruders and Plotters

• Open source plotting at DoES Working with jackie on paste/wax extruder
• Open-source Wax RepRap 3-D Printer for Rapid Prototyping Paper-Based Microfluidics Files, paper and summary on Wax Rep Rap Thingiverse
• Syringe Extruder Instructable The extruder jackie is experimenting with
• Ystruder another syringe extruder but with sensing capability (autolevelling?) Source files on the Ystruder gitlab

Microscopes

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• DIY Scanning Tunnelng Microscope(STM)
• FoldScope
• OpenFlexure Microscope
  • Simple Pi Microscope Public lab do a quick and dirty assembly of an objective lens & Pi Cam v.2.0 and some of the openflexure components above
  • OpenFlexure Project site Under Construction
  • OpenFlexure on GitLab It’s only the software for some reason
• Gametophyte-Fern-photography-2018

Labs, Challenges and Innovation Orgs 🏢

• Medialab Prado Hackteria born here from a workshop in 2009
• Chan Zuckerberg BioHub Does what it says on the tin
• Stanford Bio-X
• Chemical Eng counterpart to Bio-x

BioMakeSpace Cambridge paper call reading list

Jason S. Leith∗, Albert Kamanzi∗, Dave Sean, Daniel Berard, Andrew Guthrie, Christopher, M.J. McFaul, Gary Slater, Hendrick de Haan∗, Sabrina R. Leslie∗, “Free Energy of a Polymer in Slit-like Confinement from the Odijk Regime to the Bulk“. Macromolecules, 49 (23), pp 9266–9271 (2016).

Gilead Henkin, Daniel Berard, Francis Stable, Marjan Shayegan, Jason S. Leith, Sabrina R. Leslie∗, “Manipulating and visualizing molecular interactions in customized nanoscale spaces“. Analytical Chemistry, 88 (22), 11100–11107 (2016)

Bojing Jia, Tse-Luen Wee, Daniel J. Berard, Adiel Mallik, David Juncker, Claire M. Brown∗, Sabrina R. Leslie∗, “Parallelized Cytoindentation Using Convex Micropatterned Surfaces“. Biotechniques 61, No. 2, 73-82 (2016).

Daniel Berard∗, Marjan Shayegan∗, François Michaud, Gilead Henkin, Shane Scott, Sabrina R. Leslie∗, “Formatting and Ligating Biopolymers using Adjustable Nanotopographies“. Appl. Phys. Lett. 109, 033702 (2016).

Jalal Ahamed, Sara Mahshid, Daniel Berard, François Michaud, Rob Sladek, Walter Reisner∗, Sabrina R. Leslie∗ “Continuous Confinement Fluidics: Getting Lots of Molecules in Small Spaces“. Macromolecules 49, (7) 2853-2859 (2015).

Sara Mahshid, Mohammed Jalal Ahamed, Daniel Berard, Susan Amin, Robert Sladek, Sabrina R. Leslie*, Walter Reisner*, “Development of a Platform for Single Cell Genomics Using Convex Lens-Induced Confinement“. Lab on a Chip 15, 3013-3020 (2015).

Adriel Arsenault, Jason Leith, Gil Henkin, Christopher McFaul, Matthew Tarling, Richard Talbot, Daniel Berard, François Michaud, Shane Scott, Sabrina Leslie*, “Open-frame System for Single-Molecule Microscopy“. Rev. Sci. Instrum. 86(3), p.033701 (2015).

Daniel Berard, François Michaud, Sara Mahshid, Mohammed Jalal Ahamed,Christopher M.J. McFaul, Jason S. Leith, Pierre Bérubé, Rob Sladek, Walter Reisner*, Sabrina R. Leslie*. “Convex Lens-Induced Nanoscale Templating”. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 111, 13295–13300 (2014).

Daniel Berard, Christopher M.J. McFaul, Jason S. Leith, Adriel Arsenault, François Michaud, Sabrina R. Leslie*, “Precision Platform for Convex Lens-Induced Confinement Microscopy”. Review of Scientific Instruments, 84, 103704 (2013).

Christopher M.J. McFaul, Jason S. Leith, Bojing Jia, François Michaud, Adriel Arsenault, Andrew Martin, Daniel Berard, Sabrina R. Leslie*, “Single-Molecule Microscopy Using Tunable Nanoscale Confinement”. SPIE Conference Proceeding, 8811 (2013).

Model Organisms

A model organism is a non-human species that is extensively studied to understand particular biological phenomena, with the expectation that discoveries made in the model organism will provide insight into the workings of other organisms.

• Arabidopsis thaliana

• Drosophila melanogaster D. melanogaster species of the fly family. AKA Fruit fly or vinegar fly

genetics diabetes diptheria

• Escherichia coli E. coli Gram negative anaerobic coliform bacteria This is a pretty famous organisms

• Schizosaccharomyces pombe. AKA fission yeast in brewing

• Saccharomyces cerevisiae S. cerevisiae Yeast which you can get in Wilkos Diptheria,

Non Human networks

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• The Worm Breeders Gazette
• WormBase
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DIY lab Practices

Downes, J., Breeze, M., & Griffin, N. (2013) Researching DIY cultures: towards a situated ethical practice for activist-academia. Graduate Journal of Social Science 10(3): 100-124.

Ellis, R. and Waterton, C. (2005) Caught between the cartographic and the ethnographic imagination: The whereabouts of amateurs, professionals, and nature in knowing biodiversity. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 23(5): 673-693.

Ferretti, F. (2019) Mapping do-it-yourself science. Life Sciences, Society and Policy 15(1): 1-23.

Fiske A., Del Savio L., Prainsack B., and Buyx A. (2019) Conceptual and Ethical Considerations for Citizen Science in Biomedicine. In: Heyen N., Dickel S. and Bruninghaus A. (eds) Personal Health Science. Offentliche Wissenschaft und gesellschaftlicher Wandel. Springer VS, Wiesbaden.

Halfacree, K. (2004) I could only do wrong: Academic research and DIY culture. Radical Theory/Critical Praxis 68-78.

Hecker, S., Haklay, M., Bowser, A., Makuch, Z., Vogel, J., and Bonn, A. (2018). Innovation in open science, society and policy-setting the agenda for citizen science. Innovation in Open Science, Society and Policy; UCL Press: London, UK.

Gorman, B. (2011) Patent office as biosecurity gatekeeper: Fostering responsible science and building public trust in DIY science. Marshall Review of Intellectual Property Law 3(10): 423-449.

Landrain, T., Meyer, M., Perez, A.M. and Sussan, R. (2013) Do-it-yourself biology: Challenges and promises for an open science and technology movement. Systems and Synthetic Biology 7(3): 115-126.

Meyer, M. (2013) Domesticating and democratizing science: A geography of do-it-yourself biology. Journal of Material Culture 18(2): 117-134.

Revill, J. and Jefferson, C. (2013) Tacit knowledge and the biological weapons regime. Science and Public Policy 41(5): 597-610.

Secord, A. (1996) Artisan botany. In: Jardine, N. (eds.) Cultures of Natural History. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 378-393.

Seyfried, G., Pei, L. and Schmidt, M. (2014) European Do-it-yourself (DIY) Biology: Beyond the hope, hype and horror. Bioessays 36(6): 548-551.

Sleator, R.D. (2016) DiY biology-hacking goes viral. Science Progress 99(3): 278-281.

Tanenbaum, J., Williams, A. Desjardins, A. and Tanenbaum, K. (2013) Democratizing technology: pleasure, utility and expressiveness in DIY and maker practice. In Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 2603-2612), ACM.

Wolinsky, H. (2005) Do-it-yourself diagnosis: Despite apprehension and controversy, direct-to-consumer genetic tests are becoming more popular, EMBO Reports 6(9): 805-807.

Wexler, A. (2016) The practices of do-it-yourself brain stimulation: implications for ethical considerations and regulatory proposals. Journal of Medical Ethics 42(4): 211-215.

Alternative DIY Histories Reading List

• Braybrooke, Kay/Jordan, Tim (2017): “Genealogy, Culture and Technomyth: Decolonizing Western Information Technologies, from Open Source to the Maker Movement”. In: Digital Culture & Society 3(1), pp. 25-45.

• von Busch, Otto (2012): “Generation Open: Contested Creativity and Capabilities”. In: The Design Journal 15(4), pp. 443–459.

• Chan, Anita S. (2014): “Beyond Technological Fundamentalism: Peruvian Hack Labs & ‘Inter-technological’ Education”. In: Journal of Peer Production 5.

• Dunbar-Hester, Christina (2014): “Radical Inclusion? Locating Accountability in Technical DIY”. In Ratto, Matt/Boler, Megan (Eds.): DIY Citizenship: Critical Making and Social Media (pp. 75–88). Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press.

• Escobar, Arturo (2018): Designs for the Pluriverse: Radical Interdependence, Autonomy, and the Making of Worlds. Durham, US: Duke University Press.

• Fonseca, Felipe (2015): Repair Culture. Retrieved from http://efeefe.no-ip.org/livro/repair-culture

• Irani, Lilly (2015): “Hackathons and the Making of Entrepreneurial Citizenship”. In: Science, Technology, & Human Values 40(5), pp. 799–824.

• Irani, Lilly (2018): “‘Design Thinking’: Defending Silicon Valley at the Apex of Global Labor Hierarchies”. In: Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience 4(1), pp. 1-19.

• Jasanoff, Sheila/Kim, Sang-Hyun (Eds.) (2015): Dreamscapes of Modernity: Sociotechnical Imaginaries and the Fabrication of Power. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press.

• Jordan, Tim (2016): “A genealogy of hacking”. In: Convergence 23(5), pp. 528–544.

• Knott, Stephen (2013): “Design in the Age of Prosumption: The Craft of Design after the Object”. In: Design and Culture 5(1), pp. 45–67.

• Krewani, Angela (2017): “Urban Hacking and Its “Media Origins””. In: Digital Culture & Society, 3(1), pp. 139–146.

• Lindtner, Silvia (2015): “Hacking with Chinese Characteristics: The Promises of the Maker Movement against China’s Manufacturing Culture”. In: Science, Technology, & Human Values 40(5), pp. 854-879.

• Lindtner, Silvia/Lin, Cindy (2017): “Making and its promises”. In: CoDesign 13(2), pp. 70–82.

• Medina, Eden/Marques, Ivan da Costa/Holmes, Christina (Eds.). (2014): Beyond Imported Magic: Essays on Science, Technology, and Society in Latin America. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press.

• Oldenziel, Ruth/Hård, Mikael (2013): Consumers, Tinkerers, Rebels: The People Who Shaped Europe. London: Palgrave Macmillan.

• Oudshoorn, Nelly/Pinch, Trevor (2003): How Users Matter: The Co-Construction of Users and Technologies. Massachusetts, US: The MIT Press.

• Pomerantz, Jeffrey/Peek, Robin (2016): “Fifty shades of open”. In: First Monday 21(5).

David, P. A. (2004). Towards a cyberinfrastructure for enhanced scientific collaboration: Providing its ‘soft’ foundations may be the hardest part.

Friesike, S., & Schildhauer, T. (2015). Open science: many good resolutions, very few incentives, yet. In Incentives and Performance (pp. 277-289). Springer International Publishing.

Katz A (2012). Towards a Functional Licence for Open Hardware. International Free and Open Source Software Law Review, 4(1), 41-62.

Pearce, JM (2014) Open-Source Lab: How to Build Your Own Hardware and Reduce Research Costs, Elsevier.

Powell, A. (2012). Democratizing production through open source knowledge: from open software to open hardware. Media, Culture & Society, 34(6), 691-708.

Powell, A. B. (2015). Open culture and innovation: integrating knowledge across boundaries. Media, Culture & Society,
Footnotes

[1] http://www.appropedia.org/Category:Open_source_scientific_hardware

[2] http://www.gaudi.ch/GaudiLabs/?page_id=328

[3] http://blog.safecast.org/

[4] http://publiclab.org/home

[5] http://www.openrov.com/

[6] http://www.instituteofmaking.org.uk/research/lego2nano

[7] https://www.backyardbrains.com/

[8] http://openlabtools.eng.cam.ac.uk/

[9] http://cta.if.ufrgs.br/

[10] http://trendinafrica.org/

[11] http://3dprint.nih.gov

[12] http://www.oshwa.org/definition/

[13] http://www.oshwa.org

[14] http://design.okfn.org/

[15] http://ocsdnet.org/projects/hita-ordo-natural-fiber-honf-foundation/

[16] http://www.citizencyberscience.net/

[17] http://tronic.princeton.edu/pulselab/

[18] http://www.pulsepod.io/

[19] http://itp.nyu.edu/sigs/news/event-science-x-kickstarter-hackathon/