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 ...

Over the last few weeks I've been putting my shoulder into ruby, twitter analytics, basic statistics, and visualization along with the fine young minds of the nascent Web Ecology Project. One of the first things we looked at was the trending terms on twitter; Specifically, for every day over the ...

I want to make an example "BioWeatherMap" based on existing metagenomic data, so I'm looking for a dataset of 16s ribosomal dna (rDNA) sampled from tens or hundreds of environmental locations. First I'd start by creating a simple map rom the basic data (sequences + location) - something like ...