Workshop series - DIYbio - Build your own biotech lab!

#### Workshop series is facilitated jointly by the Health Hackers and the FabLab FAU Erlangen. It has to be seen as kickoff for the new DIYbio project group and is aimed to empower us in topics with wetware focus like for example diagnostics, genetics etc. Furthermore it is nice to be part of this global movement around biology #######

Biologic systems are amazing, but working with them is mainly limited to high tech labs of universities or industries. This happened about 40 years ago with one technology which we all don´t want to miss in our life: Computer.

Having this technology democratized and to be found in almost every pocket is owed to creative and passionate people with a maker and hacker attitude. So now, why not biology?

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Source: diybio.org

Let´s think and discuss how “personal biotechnology” could look like in 5 to 20 years from now. But we would not be a FabLab if we not aiming on actually tinker and build something. Therefore, the declared goal for the workshop is also to build deceives in a DIY style. Doing so we will use and get inspired by the existing DIY plans of worldwide community. In the best case we would like to use the devices made during this workshop series in little experiments or silly test cases like e.g. what meat is in mine Mensa schnitzel.

Don´t expect a completely planed workshop, because we want to decide together during the first session what is our common interest and then just start. We will provide the necessary frame for this, support in technical issues and inspire as much as possible.

So let´s get part of this worldwide movement, hack biology and build cool stuff together!

Christian & Patrick