On and off over the last 6 months I've been working on a 2-axis arduino controlled servo powered low-cost stage and usb microscope, inspired by Marc Dusseiller's work . Today I hooked up a ps3eye w/ an inverted lens and attempted to calculate its magnification factor. I also made some ...

Synthetic Aesthetics is an upcoming program designed to bring 6 synthetic biologists and 6 designers together in a month-long mutually beneficial collaboration. The goal is to to bring together synthetic biologists, social scientists, designers, artists, and other creative practitioners, to explore existing and potential collaborations between synthetic biology and ...

Testing a multitouch interface to a 2-axis microscope stage powered by cheap servo motors, controlled by an arduino, processing, and TUIO events from an iPhone. My dream is to be able to put my fingers on giant microbes and swipe them around. Based on diybio.org/ucam. ucam development 25 Feb 2010 ...

[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="500" caption="1-second exposure overlayed with a 30-second (slightly warped to optimize registration) overlayed using photoshop's "lighten" blending mode at 100% opacity. More photos at flickr"][/caption] I've been fascinated by bioluminescence from the first time I saw pictures of deep-sea angler fish. Since then, I've seen dozens ...

As part of the interview process, Carolina Rossini asked me to write a short report on "The Problems of Patents on Diagnostic Testing Kits" (pdf). Later that summer, I read Steven Levy's "Hackers: The Heros of the Computer Revolution." Now I've started to see an analogy between the tools used by nascent ...