DIY Laboratory@CUBEmumbai

3 day workshop in Do it yourself Biology

Where?CUBE in Mumbai How to get there?Directions?

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 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

Puneeth Kishore

Tejas Rode

Shreyasi Kar

G.N

TO DO:

Setup Wiki

Write Blog

Design Posters

Feb 17th

-Setting up Space

-walking around TIFR

-Making note of intersting trash and junk

Feb 18th

-Intro

-Maybe brief presentation / introductions

-Walking around TIFR Collecting Junk

-Hello World - Building our first Microscope

Feb 19th

-Take another field trip

-Look for Organisms- Diatoms = water quality.

-Discussions- What is a laboratory?

Start building a GEL box

Primers?(Shreyasi?)

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

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