BHA01 Information
Note: This announce references to BHA01 edition.
If you want to build your own bioreactor to produce your own electricity, ink, food or whatever you may imagine, this is the course you were waiting for. Organized by the open wetLab from WAAG society, the course aim is to teach students how to build the basic equipment to start doing biotech projects.
The course description:
“The age of personal biotechnology is upon us! Engineers have turned biology in a design discipline and it’s now up to us to shape it’s applications. After completing this first BioHack Academy you can grow your own fuel, food, filaments, farmaceuticals, fragances, fungi and much more funky bio stuff at home. We’ll teach you how to join the bio revolution and build your own biofactory using a Fablab, Maker/Hackspace or other shared machine shop.
Learn how to design, grow and extract your own biomaterials using only Open Source hardware you fabricate yourself. Whether it’s a new type of bio ink, bio polymer or bio fuel, we’ll show you can grow it yourself and share the results with others.
For starters, you may choose a product from our collection, such as violacein (purple dye), cellulose (biopolymer), ethanol fuel (yeast fermentation), spirulina algae (super food), lactic acid (yoghurt), penicilin (antibiotic), kombucha (drink), acidic acid (vinegar), citric acid (aspergillis), mycelium (filaments) and/or tell us about your own living material of choice.”
The detailed list of classes can be found in this PDF document.
You can check the BioHack Academy Syllabus with all the needed information for each class at: http://biohackacademy.github.io/
And don’t forget to register in our Forum, so you can get support from the teachers and other students, and share your opinions and experiences.
Here you have the calendar with the lessons:
