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!
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.
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!