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Revision as of 15:44, 11 June 2012
http://openlibrary.org/books/OL8553218M/Plankton_Culture_Manual
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=how-to-rear-a-plankton-me
http://www.instructables.com/id/Simple-Algae-Home-CO2-Scrubber-Part-II-Culturing/?ALLSTEPS
Experimental Flat-Panel Photobioreactor:
Grow-> extract -> distill to make biofuel:
http://www.ehow.com/how_5982439_use-algae-biodiesel-fuel.html
Algea incubator with arduino controlled CO2 pump, simple resistive heater and some led lightning
fabbing the plexi parts in the FabLab / lights on
Contents
Algae Hacking at GaudiLabs (June 2012)
Picking Algae Cells / Patch Clamp
Setup using a CD-ROM reading head for XY micro-positioning of a small glas capillary. The coil head is controlled using an arduino. The coils are directely connected to the PWM output pins.
Picking head mounted on a XY-table for macro adjustments using the two stepper motors.
Imgae of the capillary. String algae and single cell algae in size comparison. Positioning is very precise (+/- 5 um),aspiring the algae is not yet reliable.
Discussed some theory on patch clamping cells brought in by Ralf Weise.
We need the Chara Corallina algae with single cells as big a 2x20mm.
Let's go for algae hunting...
Algae Sample Collection