Author: Justin Atkin

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Scibus Arrives!

This past monday we welcomed the newest members of the Scihouse ecosystem, Scibus! Scibus’s 2 members, Jesse Hughes and Angel Celeste, drove across the country to come and do cool stuff with us. They brought with them their adorable bus-turned-house and a trailer full of tools, supplies and samples that they collected during their journey.


They were here barely a few hours before we were already hard at work in our continued efforts to bioremediate our yard and built an adorable bug hotel out of salvaged materials.



We look forward to many more days building together and doing cool projects so be sure to keep an eye out for more updates!

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Exciting News!

New 501c3 Status!

We recently submitted the paperwork to make Scihouse officially a 501c3 and we just received confirmation that our application has been approved!
So what does this mean for Scihouse? Well now donations made to Scihouse Inc, are tax deductable!

Hopefully this will help us grow and be a benifit to all of you as well.

What a great start to the new year!

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Hands on Workshop With Hack@FSCJ

Are you interested in biohacking but don’t know where to start? Then this workshop is for you! One of the most important parts of “biohacking” is the biology aspect of it. So if you really want to get into it, biology is the first thing you need to learn. The workshop will cover the basics of biology, aseptic technique and microbial cell culture and you’ll get a chance to get hands on with all of it. The workshop is scheduled to take place on December 15th but the date is subject to change based on attendance, so if you’re interested be sure to RSVP at https://www.facebook.com/events/343348989454119/ so we know you’re coming! Hope to see you  all there!

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How to Streak a Bacterial Plate

In microbiology, one of the first skills you learn is streaking. While the name sounds funny, it actually refers to a method of slowly diluting a bacterial culture until only single cells remain. To learn how to streak a plate, check out our new video!

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Blog Education R&D

Building a gene gun for less than $100

A gene gun is by far one of the most useful tools for getting DNA into an organism. But they are prohibitively expensive to buy ($35,000 new from biorad). Since we needed one for our projects we thought we’d try and build one! We managed to put ours together for less than $100 and it works great! Thanks so much to those who came to makercon this past weekend and saw us demonstrating it. To find out how to build your own gene gun, check out our new video!

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Closed Due to Cooling Issues and Inclement Weather

Hi Everyone,

 

Due to ongoing cooling issues at the warehouse, we’ll be closed  except on request until changes have been made. If you’d like to use or see the space feel free to contact us at 206-841-0775 and we’ll be happy to open up for you. We apologize for the inconvenience, but have made this decision to make sure our members are happy and safe. We thank you for your patience while we work on resolving this issue.

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Pop Art Block Party – A Great Success and a Lot of Fun

This past Friday, we hosted Pop Art Block Party and it was an absolute blast! In the short span of a week we transformed the space from a mostly bare warehouse, into a beautiful exhibition filled with science and art. With several hundred people in attendance we stayed busy the whole night. We met a lot of amazing people and look forward to seeing new faces at the meetups.

The new mural at the front of the building looks amazing!

One of our founders, Alex Borrelli doing some live torchwork. He made this cool pair of DNA goblets!

Our Electronics and Bio/Chem spaces got a makeover and some new art. Now they’re ready to host some exciting classes and workshops!

Our new pallet bar looked super cool when it was all lit up.

 

Even the greenspace was transformed!

Thanks again to everyone who made it out to the event, and we hope you had as great of a time as we did. We’re already starting to get ready for our next event. While this event was a lot of fun, it was also mostly aimed at adults. Our next event will be for all ages and will lean more towards the science aspects of the space, so be sure to keep an eye out for that in the near future!

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Blog Education R&D

Our First Instructable! Receiving Images From Weather Satellites

For anyone who’s come to one of the Meetups, you’ve seen us receive images from passing weather satellites. If you ever wanted to know how that works, we’ve already made 2 videos going through the process, but for those who prefer written instructions, we now have an Instructable to go with it! https://www.instructables.com/id/Receiving-Images-From-Passing-Weather-Satellites-N/

This instructable only covers NOAA satellites but we’re working on part 2 which will cover the details of METEOR M2 reception as well.

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Our first library class

Yesterday, Wednesday June 14th we taught our first class at the Jax Public Library’s Makerspace. First off, we just wanted to say a big thanks to everyone who attended. It was a great experience and one we look forward to doing again.

The class was on the topics of plants and plant biology and we talked about the plant at all scales, from leaves and roots to stomata and chloroplasts. We manage to cover an impressive amount of content in the short span of the class and everyone got lots of hands on with everything we covered. Best of all, everyone went home with their own mini greenhouse kit and seeds that they picked and planted themselves.

It was a lot of fun and hope everyone enjoyed as much as we did!

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Our next Meetup and our first class!

Next week will be a busy week for us with lots of exciting things happening. To kick off the week we’ll be hosting our second Meetup at the space and all are welcome and encouraged to come on by. The Meetup starts at 6pm on Tuesday June 13th and we’ll be demoing a little bit of everything. From receiving images directly off of weather satellites, to RaspberryPi and arduino, to bacterial nanocellulose, there’s something for everyone.

LINK TO THE MEETUP
The day after, June 14th, we’ll be running our first class at the Jax Public Library. The class will be focused on plants and plant biology. Everyone will go home with their own basil plant and we’ll be covering everything you’ll need to know to keep your plant happy. We’ll also be going over some plant biology so you can learn how plants work, starting at leaves and going all the way to the cellular level. The class is for everyone and anyone who’s interested and is an all ages event. So come on down! The class will start at 11:30 and run till around 1:30.