Schlagwort: Biology
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Raspberry Pi: a versatile tool for biological sciences
Reading Time: 3 minutesOver the nine-ish years since the release of our first model, we’ve watched grow a thriving global community of Raspberry Pi enthusiasts, hobbyists, and educators. But did you know that Raspberry Pi is also increasingly used in scientific research? Some of the scientific applications of Raspberry Pi that Jolle found Dr Jolle…
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Raspberry Pi High Quality Camera powers up homemade microscope
Reading Time: 3 minutesWow, DIY-Maxwell, wow. This reddit user got their hands on one of our new Raspberry Pi High Quality Cameras and decided to upgrade their homemade microscope with it. The brains of the thing are also provided by a Raspberry Pi. Key features Raspberry Pi OS 8 MegaPixel CMOS camera (Full HD 30…
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Help medical research with folding@home
Reading Time: 3 minutesDid you know: the first machine to break the exaflop barrier (one quintillion floating‑point operations per second) wasn’t a huge dedicated IBM supercomputer, but a bunch of interconnected PCs with ordinary CPUs and gaming GPUs. With that in mind, welcome to the [email protected] project, which is targeting its enormous power at COVID-19…
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FluSense takes on COVID-19 with Raspberry Pi
Reading Time: 3 minutesRaspberry Pi devices are often used by scientists, especially in biology to capture and analyse data, and a particularly striking – and sobering – project has made the news this week. Researchers at UMass Amherst have created FluSense, a dictionary-sized piece of equipment comprising a cheap microphone array, a thermal sensor, an…
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Raspberry Pi vs antibiotic resistance: microbiology imaging with open source hardware
Reading Time: 4 minutesThe Edwards Lab at the University of Reading has developed a flexible, low-cost, open source lab robot for capturing images of microbiology samples with a Raspberry Pi camera module. It’s called POLIR, for Raspberry Pi camera Open-source Laboratory Imaging Robot. Here’s a timelapse video of them assembling it. Measuring antibiotic resistance with…
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Growth Monitor pi: an open monitoring system for plant science
Reading Time: 3 minutesPlant scientists and agronomists use growth chambers to provide consistent growing conditions for the plants they study. This reduces confounding variables – inconsistent temperature or light levels, for example – that could render the results of their experiments less meaningful. To make sure that conditions really are consistent both within and between…
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A low-cost, open-source, computer-assisted microscope
Reading Time: 2 minutesLow-cost open labware is a good thing in the world, and I was particularly pleased when micropalaeontologist Martin Tetard got in touch about the Raspberry Pi-based microscope he is developing. The project is called microscoPI (what else?), and it can capture, process, and store images and image analysis results. Martin is engaged…
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Saving biologists’ time with Raspberry Pi
Reading Time: 2 minutesIn an effort to save themselves and fellow biologists hours of time each week, Team IoHeat are currently prototyping a device that allows solutions to be heated while they are still in cold storage. The IoHeat team didn’t provide any photos with their project writeup, so here’s a picture of a bored…
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OpenLH robot automates biological exploration
Reading Time: 2 minutesOpenLH robot automates biological exploration Arduino Team — December 20th, 2018 If you’d like an easy way to accomplish repetitive biological experiments, the OpenLH presents a great option for automating these tasks. The heart of the system is the Arduino Mega-controlled uArm Swift Pro robot, which is equipped with a custom end effector…
