Hackteria workshop @ ISEA2010 RUHR

By dusjagr Monday August 23, 2010

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Overview

We are happy to hold a workshop during ISEA2010 in Dortmund. Andy and Marc will go into various aspects of the hackteria project, create an atmosphere of a bio-hacklab and introduce the participants and visitors into the world of living microorganisms, how to look at them with self-made microscope and how to combine the living systems with electronics.

The workshop is open to all, full participants or short time visitors, come in and participate, join our discussions and check out what we are doing.

Day 1, Mo, 23.8:
* Introduction of hackteria
* DIY microscopy and hands-on-building session
* Living microorganisms
* Walk through the urban environment for collection and isolation of microorganisms

hackteria_introduction slides, download here

Day 2, Tue, 24.8:
* Looking at small things
* Building a suitable microscope
* Exploration on the living microcosmos
* Introduction into hybrid-systems and bioelectronix

Day 3, Thu, 26.8:
* Experiments with bioelectronix
* Explorations of the collected lifeforms
* Round-table discussion

Microscopic investigations of Life in Hagen

Look at these absolutely gorgeous images Marc took during the Hackteria lab session at ISEA 2010. It is unbelievable that you can get that beautiful images from a standard 5$ webcam after a 5 minute hack. The sample Marc took near his holiday house in Switzerland is so vivid and natural.

Hydraulic focusing stage by gaudi

During the ISEA Hackteria Workshop session we put together a nice hydraulic focusing stage. The stage is really simple to build and gives good an precise control on focus distance. It’s constructed using two syringes connected by a plastic tube. The tube junctions are glued on with hot glue. Once filled with water (there should be no bubbles) the one syringe with the sample holder glued on can be moved smoothly by actioning the other syringe. By using two different sizes of syringe even a transmission can be realized.

Impressions from the workshop

See the post by miss.gunst on the Home Made Labor : weblog about her in impressions (in german only)

PS3 Eye DIY microscopy hack

By dusjagr Monday August 23, 2010

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Easy modification of a Playstation 3 Eye, high-speed camera, optimized for low-lighting and motion detection. Thanks to Alejo Duque for coming up with the idea and prototyping the setup.

Step 1 – Open it up, f**k warrany

Use a small screw driver and open up the case of the PS3eye. The screws are hidden under the small black caps, which can be snapped out easily. Twist open the casing and then unscrew the pcb from the rest of the case.

Step 2 – Remove the optics

Unscrew the small screws which hold the optical parts. Remove it completely and inspect it. The bottom part, obviously has a threaded interior, but sadly the top, optical part is usually glued into it. try scratching off the glue. otherwise carefulle cut through the bottom piece until you can snatch it open and remove the top, optics.

Step 3 – inversion of the optics and positioning

The easiest way to tranform the PS3eye into a microscope is by just flipping upside down the optics. Remount the bottom part back onto the pcb and just tape back the optics upside down on top of it. For different magnifications you can also readjust the position/distance of the optics to the chip. the included switch in the optics to choose 2 different field of views (FOV) turns out to be really useful for microscopy applications.

Step 4 – build a stable setup for inverted light microscopy

Further modifications – exchange the lens

see the post about using it as a haemocytometer and mounted onto a standard stage here

More hacks on the PS3 Eye and Haemocytometer at cellsbutton#04

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