One of the survivors was this cauliflower sample, but it out grew its dish and has pushed it open. I feel like this is a poetic way of a final good bye from...

Not many of my plant tissue culture samples survived after the travel. I think some of the para film tape wore off or there is a contamination in the new incubator....

I built up my modular incubator when i got home as i had a few samples of my plants to carry on growing. It was still without the electronics as i haven’t found the time...

I have decided that i want to continue with my work here and realised i need to set up the environment to allow me to pursue this. A reason I have to go to Amsterdam...

Dismantling the incubator was so quick and easy, done in less than 5 min! It packed down to a very minimal size which i was quite surprised about. Unfortunately the pieces of wood...

My worry was how to send samples of bacteria, plants and mycelium back to the UK without causing problems for myself. I decided to split the samples, posting half and take half in...

When I joined the BHA I wasn’t aware of how much I was going to learn. Over the past 10 weeks I have gained so much knowledge and experience, and feel I have began...

I have a real pleasure in growing plants watching them grow, seeing which plants i can grow from collected samples. I used this personal interest to navigate BioHacking.

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Today we all presented our final projects. Our partner labs from Tokyo and Seoul joined, as well as a June who is doing it remotely in Philadelphia.

The presentations can been watched on...

I realised that I don’t really need the electronics to work for the current use of my incubator - it’s warm enough inside to keep a constant temperature inside for the plants to...

Often you can’t be around to continue a weekly replate of your bacteria so its good to store some in the fridge or freezer to be revived when you need them again.

Here...

From the experiment i did a few weeks back there seems to be quite a few results, one major one being mould.

At first I assumed the mould was growing just on the...

Planting out the larger seedlings

At the end of last week I noticed that some of my seeds and plants had began to out grow their dishes, so decided to...

Every week I give myself a deadline to finish off the incubator and every week I’m remarking on how everything always takes longer then expected. I finally decided to use a shield...

Documenting my growth experiments

I’d like to find a good system to document the growth on my plants and different experiments in a way thats easy for me track and look back at. I...

Still the biggest challenge

I had hoped by the end of this week that my incubator would be finished, but the next step of soldering the components onto a prototype board is really...

Today I did a new batch of plant tissue and split the samples between the 3 different medium I made up last week.

I decided to go with a range :

• Daffodil
...

UPDATE OF GROWTH AND NEW SEEDS

Cauliflower growth week 2 I think I was a bit to fast to throw away a few of my previous petri dishes and tubes that ‘looked’ contaminated....

This week my main mission it to get the incubator finished!

Electronics I began the incubator electronics by testing each output, the fan, the heating pad and temp sensor. I made some silly mistakes -...

Experimenting with different MS Media recipes

Feeling like my 2 previous solutions were a flop and having spent the weekend reading and watching videos about growing plant tissue I decided to try a few different recipes.

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My project has a tile and a narrative now. We have been set a 5min slot to present our project to all the other participants

• 1 “Whats the idea”
• 2 “How will...

Personal growing chamber

One thing i set out to make, equipment wise, was the incubator. After weeks of not being able to commit i decided that today is the day to just go for it. I had previously spent...

Gel Electrophoresis and Analyses

Last week we prepared the samples on meat and ended the week off with puting them in the PCR. Today we processed the DNA so we could read what meats are present in the samples...

Is your meat really what it says it is?

Today we learned about Genetics - more like a crash course in what DNA is and how it works.

We later did a workshop...

Weekend Growth

On friday I prepared my tissue culture in the most sterile environment I could manage, I autoclaved my tweezers, forceps and blades and wiped down everything with 70% ethanol before putting it...

Making a microscope

I made a microscope from a webcam, follow the steps on the biohack.github.io page. It was pretty simple to make and im quite impressed with the quality. The only issue...

Making the medium for my plant project

Today i started the bio part of my project - I’m going to grow plants in dishes. Starting with cauliflower, as it grows...

Microscopy Workshop

Today we did a workshop on getting slides ready for looking at under the microscope. We used an onion and a carrot and coloured them with food colouring.

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Isolation experiment from last week

We checked on our isolation experiment from last week - the plates we did to isolate the lactose bacteria were more successful then the yeast isolation from...

Lactose and Yeast bacteria

We took a sample of yogurt and yakult to isolate the lactose bacteria from and a sample of beer to isolate a sample of yeast from.

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Isolating yogurt bacteria and a small workshop in Ardunio

Today we prepared the medium to isolate yogurt bacteria. Tomorrow we’ll get round to doing the plating and diluting

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Electronics and Arduino

I have always really struggled with electronics and only ever done really basic Arduino so i hope this time, by having a project to work on with it, i will be able...

How to prepare and grow bacteria

Today we were taught how to prepare a nutrient agar in a sterile environment and how to inoculate it with a bacteria JL.

its important to remember to...