DIY Laboratory@CUBEmumbai
3 day workshop in Do it yourself Biology, bio-art, bio-hacking, lab building....
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About
CUBE, Mumbai
Homi Bhabha Centre for Science Education TIFR, Mumbai V.N. Purav Marg,Olympiad Block, Anushakti Nagar Mumbai, Maharashtra 400088
This three day workshop by (Art)ScienceBLR is open to Artists, Teachers, students, scientists. The workshop will cover Do it yourself techniques in building laboratory equipment. We will repurpose trash, consumer electronics to build scientific equipment and retake the scientific instrument from the establishment and institutions and turn it into a tool for personal enquiry and personal expression. We will discuss the aesthetics of the scientific instrument and other issues in Citizen Science......
Participants
Yashas
Shreyasi Kar
Kanchan Mishra
Rutwik Thengodkar
Nutan Bharati
Shraddha Ghunre
Jaikishan Advani
Ullhas Shah
Satej Shende
Vallari Sawant
Trupti Adangale
Durga Prasad
Disha Gupta
Schedule
Feb 17th
-Setting up Space
-walking around TIFR
-Making note of intersting trash and junk
Feb 18th
9:30 - Setting up lab
10:30 - Presentations/ introductions
11- Microscopes
11:30- "Junk" searching trip
12- Editing Wiki/Documentation
1- Lunch
2- Microscope making
4- Picnic to Lamington road
We couldn't go to picnic to Lamington road, since everyone is busy making the microscopes. The following pic tells us what kept us busy the whole day.
Feb 19th
9:30 - Wiki/Documentation + BIG fight
10:30- GN workshop on organisms + growing
1- Lunch
2- "first experiment" Diatom = water quality
5- Turbidity
Build a incubator
What should we grow in the Incubator?
Feb 20th
Everyone shows their own laboratory
Time to build a PCR?(maybe)
Materials List
Webcams for microscopes
Webcams White LED/ Light source Sample Slide/Petridish/
Do we have access to a Lasercutter(for the stage?)
Styrafoam boxes
FISH-AQUARIUMS
TAPE
CARDBOARD
SCISSORS SOLDERING IRONS ARDUINOS LED WIRES WIRE STRIPPERS MUSIC SYSTEM(->IMPORTANT) nanodrop turbidity meter
