Hello BioHackers,

Next week starts with a day off, the lab will be closed on Monday. On Tuesday we will catch up again and do our final group workshop, derived from a well know chemistry magic trick.

Let me remind you that as we move closer towards to end of the course, the use of the laser cutter can become a bottleneck for producing your designs. Please reserve a timeslot that you need in the Google Calendar.

Schedule for next Monday and Tuesday

Monday:

2nd Easter Day - Lab closed

Tuesday:

10:00-10:30 Doors open 10:30-12:30 Iodine Clock Reaction spectrometry workshop 12:30-13:30 Lunch break 13:30-14:30 Assignment meeting 14:30-18:00 Open Lab 19:00-21:00 Class 8: Pumps

Adam Brown

Lucas announced last night that on April 14th Adam Brown will give a presentation during the weekly lecture. He is well know for conducting experiments with gold harvesting microbes and his attempts to redo amino acid synthesis experiments using basic elements and lightning.

Assignment

Your assignment is to hack the spectrometer. Our suggestions would be to turn it into a flow spectrometer, add a user interface on the device itself, calibrate it with lasers and in Barcelona they decided to switch the white LED for a specific wavelenght like 660 nm for doing specific measurements.

Slides & videos

We uploaded the slides as usual to the syllabus: http://biohackacademy.github.io/biofactory/class/7-spectrometer/

See you next week, we wish you a happy easter!

The BHA Team