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Developing KORUZA Pro: Koruza Driver - Real-Time Controller
The Koruza driver is an additional board to Koruza router. Its main task is to handle the real-time parts of Koruza system, like stepper motors for the laser beam positioning, infrared communication...
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Integrated version of Safecast bGeigie
We created an integrated version of the bGeigie device, a mobile survey Geiger counter, by Safecast, who are working to empower people with data about their environments.Our PCB is based on original...
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Fab4Dev - Fabrication for Development
We believe open source knowledge and digital fabrication can serve as a platform for empowerment and life improvement since it enables local production of solutions a certain community needs as well as...
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Boštjan's travel log
The week framing the end of this year’s November and the beginning of December Boštjan from our Symbiolab was travelling North-West to foster new collaborations with colleagues from Germany and the...
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New Year, New Space, New Challenges!
Our team wishes everyone an open and a very successful 2017!For us already the very beginning of the year has been full of changes. With our product Koruza growing to the point of entering the...
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Luka Visiting 3D Bioprinting Conference in Maastricht
Once a year, this year for the fourth time, people from the fields related to medical 3D printing gather in Maastricht (NED) and share knowledge and experience. The 3D bioprinting conference in...
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KORUZA at 4YFN!
KORUZA is exhibiting at 4YFN 2017 in Barcelona!4YFN, the growing tech startup community, is the business platform of Mobile World Capital Barcelona and this year’s event, the fourth in a row as part of...
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Non-gluten-free 3D bioprinting
A while back, when Musti and Boštjan were visiting the Ars Electronica festival in Linz, we recieved a package of gluten for testing with Vitaprint - our 3D Bioprinter. Due to lack of temperature...
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Investigating medicinal effects of mushrooms
For the last couple of months, our symbiolab was hosting a high-school research project for the “Youth for the progress of Maribor (Mladi za napredek Maribora)” competition. Our guest student Gabriela...
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A new year of developing open hardware for applied systems is ahead of us...
We are really excited and proud our founder Luka Mustafa became a Shuttleworth Fellow for the third year and want to congratulate him at this occasion. Together we will continue our work of building...
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GoodEnoughCNC – some good and some not-so-good news
First, some good news – we’ve made several improvements to our GoodEnoughCNC Hybrid, which are simplifying the design and making the machine more robust.Z axis: We completely changed the structure of...
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Developing KORUZA Pro: Industrial Flavor of Raspberry Pi
Effective iteration cycles are very important part of the development of a new device. By doing a new version/iteration of the product you can enhance it in many different ways, which was done very...
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Developing KORUZA Pro: Koruza Driver - Part 2
We’ve come a long way since our last blog post on Koruza real time (move) driver with many improvements made to the system, including the changes to the real-time driver itself. The new structure of...
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Turtle Tag and Turtle Camera Enclosure Development to Help Save Sea Turtles
In the beginning of 2016 we have finished first series of open source turtle tag enclosures for Zoological Society of London. The tags, nicknamed “Pitstop tags” because of the design that enables...
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Collaborating with Safecast – Development and Fabrication of Solarcast
From the beginning of this year we have started, together with our fabrication company Fabrikor, several new partnerships with open hardware organizations within Shuttleworth Foundation and outside....
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Vitaprint team is preparing a joint research project
In the beginning of June, we were paid a visit by our friends from the Institute of Biomedical Mechatronics in Linz. In preparation of a joint research project, we set out to implement our Vitaprint...
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Building Hardware Following Open Source Principles
Since the beginning of this year we at Institute IRNAS and Fabrikor fabrication lab have started several exciting collaborations with organizations from around the world, helping them bring to life...
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Freeform gelatin microfluidics
In late 2015, Hinton et al. (see full article) published a widely cited article describing a method for freeform reversible embedding of suspended hydrogels, or FRESH for short. In summary, it allows...
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Symbiolab 2.0 and Vitaprint Release
A lot has happened in the last past year. With the moving of IRNAS to the new facilities, we also obtained a newer and especially more spacious bio-lab. While the time required to set-up full...
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Freeform Gelatin Microfluidics - Making a Meniscus
A few weeks ago we posted the news on our gelatin microfluidics, where we were able to show a successfully fabricated gelatin matrix with embedded perfusable vessels using Vitaprint. However, our...
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