View source for Openhackuarium vol. 227 Special Simple Spectro

* Main language this week: '''English/French'''<br>
* Theme : '''How to design, prototype and build from scratch a simple, accurate, cheap spectrophotometer, or anything?'''
* Date : '''Wednesday, November 7th, 2018. Doors open at 7pm''', presentations at 7.30pm
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=Main topic: How to design, prototype and build from scratch a simple, accurate, cheap spectrophotometer, or anything?=

'''The Hackuarium & Octanis team behind https://hackuarium.github.io/simple-spectro/, represented by Océane & Luc Patiny, will explain how they designed, prototyped and now produce a simple, precise, cheap spectrophotometer.'''
From scratch to cool, Do-It-Together style.
You do not need a piece of equipment costing several thousands CHF/euros/dollars to teach and learn this great biology and chemistry technique, spectrophotometry.

Any freelancer, entrepreneur, student, project leader, teacher, curious mind can learn a thing or two thanks to this approach. If your last biology experience was around age 14, even better: come to see how different and easy the Hackuarium approach to it and other sciences or arts might be ;)

'''Please, [https://www.meetup.com/fr-FR/hackuarium/events/256050931/ RSVP on Meetup], and [https://www.facebook.com/events/316502105807524/  share widely on Facebook] if you like that, for us to be able to prepare the room for you accordingly!'''

"The goal [was] to create a simple spectrophotometer that measures the absorbance of a sample at 3 different light colors (red, green, blue), is autonomous (on battery) and displays the result on a LCD screen.
The initial idea was that you could teach spectrophotometry without having to buy an expensive instrument, since you can find experiments that does not require a specific light wavelength. This includes optical density for bacteria culture, determination of a pigments concentration in a solution, determination of the kinetic of a reaction and many others."

Smurf candy and its typical blue color might have been involved at some point, but no smurfette was harmed during those experiments.


=Announcements=

==General comments==

Intro to Hackuarium, and: we have moved out!<br>
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You might have heard we are moving (out, up, any direction you like).<br>
That's right, we emptied our lab at the 2nd floor of Les Ateliers de Renens, Closel 5, CH-1020 Renens (VD), over the past month. We are still exploring new opportunities for a space, after 4 years in that building where our association, lab, and most importantly, community, were born.<br>
This is then officially our first nomadic #OpenHackuarium (number 227, that's a lot of Wednesdays), kindly hosted by our now ex-neighbors at the 3rd floor, MassChallenge Switzerland. We voted during our last General Assembly to try and make them a regular contribution to our now past first ecosystem.<br>
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tl;dr So long and thanks for all the fish, we'll keep sharing!<br>


==Future events==

Still cooking.

==Other topics==

How to help us relocate?

=Links=
* https://hackuarium.github.io/simple-spectro/
* RSVP on Meetup: https://www.meetup.com/fr-FR/hackuarium/events/256050931/
* Share on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/316502105807524/

==Practical Info (access, map, etc.)==
cf. [[Open_Hackuarium|#OpenHackuarium]]
We are now nomads! This means we are kindly hosted on the 3rd floor of Ateliers de Renens, Closel 5, CH-1020 Renens (VD), by our now ex-neighbors, MassChallenge.

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