[Noisebridge-discuss] Shaker/Incubator: May I get some help with mechanical construction

[Sean Cusack]

Nice - those both sound like awesome ideas! Man I wish that they taught me
how to do cheap skate lab stuff in skool :).

Sean

On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 10:02 PM, Glen Jarvis <glen at glenjarvis.com> wrote:

> This is awesome -- I'm still absorbing it all, but let me answer a quick
> question:
>
> One random question - have you thought about sterility?? If you're going to
>> try and grow some bugs at home you will undoubtedly contaminate pretty much
>> every other crop you make with some random bacteria and totally hose your
>> experiment. You probably want to consider hacking together some sort of "bio
>> area" that has a germicidal lamp in it so you can nuke those little
>> bacterial bastards: http://www.topbulb.com/find/germicidal.asp
>
>
>
> Oh, this side is down. I use a pressure cooke as an autoclave and have had
> great results. I cook up some medium, sterilize glass petri dishes... and am
> ready to go. I have some ecoli now in a colony count :)
>
> The pressure cooker is definitely the way to go unless you can buy an
> autoclave:
>
> http://www.science-projects.com/PressureCooker.htm
>
>
> Also, although LB Medium is the standard for e.coli, MacConkey  (
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacConkey_agar) is very forgiving for
> an environment at home (http://www.science-projects.com/MacConkeyNS.htm).
>
>
> <http://www.science-projects.com/PressureCooker.htm>Cheers,
>
>
> Glen
>
>
>
> --
> Whatever you can do or imagine, begin it;
> boldness has beauty, magic, and power in it.
>
> -- Goethe
>
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