Hackuarium

Welcome to the Hackuarium community's wiki.

Cliquez ici pour accéder à la version française de ce wiki.

As you might notice quickly, it is a work-in-progress.

This page was launched during our 1st Ever Hackuarium Wiki Sprint that took place on 7 December 2014.

More to come! We are planning on expending the content on our 2nd Hackuarium Wiki Sprint.

DIY Bio

What is DIY Bio?

DIY biology (Do-It-Yourself biology) is a movement that wants to free the practice of biological research and innovation from the institutional and industrial laboratories. Pursued both by amateur and professional biologists, DIY biology is developing low-cost and low-tech solutions to problems identified by the community.

The movement is characterised by an extremely diverse set of practices and participants. Some call themselves 'biohackers', in reference to the hacker culture.

DIYbio.org and DIYbio.eu are the portals of the international and european communities, respectively.

For more information, visit the Wikipedia page dedicated to DIYbio.

Hackuarium Association

Hackuarium is a not-for-profit association aiming at democratizing science through public engagement.

Its members are people from a variety of background who are passionate about tinkering with biology in particular, and science in general. They are interested in open and participatory biology, outside traditional institutions. We want to promote interdisciplinary research and innovation, with minimal costs (low-cost), simple and accessible technologies (low-tech) and open source philosophy. We also rely on upcycling material from institutions and industry from western Switzerland. Our projects are initiated and carried out by scientists as well as citizens from a variety of background. Some are engineers, architects, designers, IT and computer scientists or retired professionals, but others have no scientific education.

Our laboratory in Renens is open to anyone sharing the values of the association and who is dedicated to follow DIYbio Europe ethical guidelines. We are active within UniverCité, an innovation hub opened in May 2014.

The Community at Large

The community is pretty shy.. more to come soon!

Events

Upcoming Events

Every Wednesday, 19:00-23:00 #OpenHackuarium: our lab and space are open to the public. Get in touch!

2015.11.05 Thursday 19:00-22:00: Lausanne Open Data vol. 3 Special meetup on Biomedical Data & Ethics (more here)

2015.09.24 Thursday 19:00-22:00: Lausanne Open Data vol. 2 (more here)

2015.09.19-21 A long week-end dedicated to biomusical innovation with the Living Instruments project

Serge Vuille, our musician in residence, will be spending three days at Hackuarium to design and build a series of living instrument prototypes. We will be working at UniverCité Saturday 19th September 11am - 7pm, Sunday 20th September 10am - 6pm, Monday 21st September 10am - 6pm

Past Events

2015.08.27 Thursday 19:00-22:00: Lausanne Open Data vol. 1 (more here)

2015.08.26 Wednesday 19:30-20:30: #OpenHackuarium vol. 60: Do we need Lac Léman Science Hackathon?

2015.08.20 Thursday 19:00-22:00: Drone Racing 101

2015.08.05 Wednesday 19:30-20:30: #OpenHackuarium vol. 57 special Fermentation

2015.07.22 Wednesday 19:30-20:30: #OpenHackuarium vol. 55 special Urban/Vertical farming

2015.07.18 Saturday 9:30-15:30: A first DNA workshop/workchoppe

2015.04.22 Wednesday 19:30-20:30: General Assembly of Hackuarium association.

2015.04.16 Thursday 19:00-21:00: Discussion with Le Pansement, a medical students association

2015.04.15 Wednesday 18:30-21:00: Practical Session "Garage Electrophoresis" with Le Pansement, a medical students association

2015.03.29 Sunday 13:30-18:30: Hackuarium Wiki Sprint #2

2015.03.28 Saturday 10:00-18:30: Open DNA Sequencing Workshop

2015.02.18 Drone night with Flylab Paris (part of La Paillasse) (FR)

2014.12.07 Hackuarium Wiki Sprint #1

2014.11.27 Roundtable at EPFL organised by BNSL

2014.11.05 NexTrends/ECAL Bioart conference at UniverCité

2014.10.22 Open Access conference at UniverCité

2014.10.09 Conference by French artist Lia Giraud

2014.09.25-27 Design Days 2014

2014.09.24 Conference by Nicolas Nova, co-fondateur du Near Future Laboratory et enseignant à la HEAD, Genève.

2014.08.27 Introduction to BricoBio Montreal by Sarah Choukah

2014.08.20 Introduction to La Paillasse Paris by Clément Epié et Nicolas Loubet

2014.06.06-07 Water Hackathon organised by Hackteria

Participation to External Events

2014.11 - 2014.12 Re-Thinking Food, Gasthaus zum Bären, W.I.R.E., Zurich, Switzerland

2014.09.25 - 2015.02.22 LAB/LIFE Exhibition, Musée de la Main, Lausanne, Switzerland

Projects

Here, you will find the projects going on in the Hackuarium.

Active Projects

• Open-Food-DNA
• Reception d'images satellites
• Mycelium Structures
• Live Type
• LivingLab Design
• Bioluminescence
• Quantitative Anthropology
• Impression 3D
• Projects:Dépollution des stands de tirs Suisses
• Projet Yann H
• Octanis
• Edible wall
• Bioreactor
• Living Instruments

Practical Informations

Following this link you will find a general plan of Hackuarium.
Following this link, you will find the plan of Hackuarium with the position of equipment.

Rules at Hackuarium

This page describe the code of conduct for Hackuarium members.

Protocols

All the protocols that we use at Hackuarium can be found here They are detailed and structured so that the main focus is on applications. The idea is to give crucial information on how to apply the most common techniques of the Biology toolbox. The protocols are structured as follow:

A scheme describing each

A brief description of the protocol and its use

A description of the different ways of carrying out the protocol. Ideally there should be a description of a commercial kit and a DIY kit.

A description of the safety issues and best practice

Information specific to Hackuarium and where to find the components, tools and reagents.

Instruments available

This page describes all the instruments available at Hackuarium (work in progress..), their location and how to use them.

Liste à jour de nos besoins en matériel

This document contains all the instruments and tools we need. If you happen to have a piece of equipment we are (or may be) looking for, contact us!

People

Renens is a hopping hub - and our members reflect the diversity that is in and around Lausanne/Renens.
Check us out, and find out what makes Hackuarium a good mix.

Members

Hackuarium operates on a membership basis at this current time.

Friends of Hackuarium

@univercité by Republic of Innovation

External

Environment

Hackuarium is situated in the IRL building in Renens. We have documented our working environment as it has evolved.
We have a BIOLAB, a DIRTYLAB, and co-working space.

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Working Equipment

Equipment needing fixing

Where we shop

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Media and Press

• Newsletter

Wanted

Do you want to contribute to making Hackuarium a diverse and lively community? Check out our wanted lists:

Skills

Ideas

Equipment

Materials