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Treasure hunt for symbiolab equipment!
The first hurdle on our way to awesome open-source bioscience is getting the symbiolab up and running. We are starting this project with very limited resources but with a strong motivation to make it a...
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A minute spent organizing is an hour earned!
In the beginning of this year we realized that we waste a lot of time walking around our office, storage room and workshops searching for tools and materials, which was driving everyone crazy. We were...
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Sorting out a backlash problem on our CNC mill router
This week we were sorting out problems with backlash on our GoodEnoughCNC mill router.We were using Nema 23 stepper motors with 1:15 planetary gear reductor, which has backlash of 0,8 mm and we were...
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Ever been to Hong Kong?
Last week a group of Architecture students visited KreatorLab to work on their school project. They combined different machine tools, using 3D printers to print buildings and our HyperCut laser cutter...
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KORUZA beam scan
The need for high alignment accuracy of two wireless optical system KORUZA units to obtain and also maintain a viable wireless optical connection is a primary challenge in advancement of a reliable...
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IRNAS endorses the Battle of the Mesh v9
The “Wireless Battle of the Mesh” is an event that aims to bring together people from across the globe to test the performance of different routing protocols for ad-hoc networks, like Babel,...
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Bio Labware Review
It begins…As the lab preparations are running, we have begun working on a DIY labware review. One of our goals at symbiolab, is making a complete collection of affordable and DIY laboratory equipment,...
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KORUZA is getting stronger with 10G version
KORUZA 1.0 10G is the latest achievement in our open source open hardware design effort to build a low-cost wireless networking technology for construction of building-to-building networks at 100m...
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Portable KORUZA stand or rapid prototyping in action
Wireless optical system KORUZA can be most easily demonstrated or calibrated when put on sufficiently stable mounting. So far we have used a concrete tile with a mounting bracket, which is very stable...
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Treasure hunt update!
A massive thank you to our first donators!We have just obtained our first labware donation for symbiolab - the open biolaboratory, kindly provided by Sanolabor d.d..The package contains a magnetic...
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Open source cable chain review
Cable/energy chains are a very convenient and durable way of organizing cables on CNC machines moving along cartesian axes. While they can be obtained at low cost in some cases, this may not be the...
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Bio Labware Review: Microscopy
The symbiolab DIY labware review has a new chapter. This week, we discuss some of the major forms of microscopy, commercial devices and their DIY counterparts.The focus in this chapter lies in creating...
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IRNAS goes on a tour
We are very excited that Luka is among the participants of GOSH!2016, Gathering for Open Science Hardware, which is happening 2 - 5 March 2016 in CERN, Geneva. Active developers, users and thinkers in...
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Link attenuation due to temperature variation
Most materials are susceptible to some amount of thermal expansion. As optical wireless system KORUZA is a high precision device, even a small change in position due to thermal expansion can cause...
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Bio Labware Review: Spectroscopy
Spectroscopy is the study of how matter interacts with waves (typically of electromagnetic nature - radiation). Such interactions often result in changes of the radiation, by which some waves are...
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Zdravstveni dom dr. Adolfa Drolca, Maribor, thank you for donation!
We’ve just obtained a UV-Vis spectrometer from the local community health center - Zdravstveni dom dr. Adolfa Drolca, Maribor! The device has a spectral range of 325-900nm, with a wavelength accuracy...
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What can you make in KreatorLab?
Last week friends from Kreatorlab tested the performance of laser cutter, cutting Plexiglas thicker than 1 cm. One of their members worked on our Troublemaker, printing out a part for his own 3D...
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ToslinkCNC - release
ToslinkCNC is our answer to grounding and interference issues commonly experienced with DIY and low-cost CNC machines. Instead of investing in shielding opto-couplers, we have used low-cost fibre optic...
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Bio Labware Review: Chromatography
New Bio Labware Review chapter is up! This week we discuss different methods in chromatography. While the name implies studying and recording color (which is in fact, how it all began), in today’s...
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Open source turtle tag enclosures Pitstop 1 are a success!
In the beginning of this year we developed and prototyped an open source, reusable version of turtle tag enclosure, named Pitstop 1 for our friends at Zoological society of London. We’ve also produced...
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