Short wish list for Science: Spectrophotometers, Centrifugal Fans, and digital pH meter

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Our Makerspace is awesome for several reasons but one main one is that our membership often provides some of the most random items for various projects.

If someone has any type of an absorption spectrophotometer, we can begin projects into proteins/enzymes donated by our highly esteemed UT Southwestern researchers and I can show people how to gain better insights into graphene and carbon nanotube processing.

If someone has a centrifugal fan with capabilities close to 300 cfm at 4" static pressure, we can get our sterile enclosure up in a day and be USDA certified (we already had the inspection) for handling and storing agrobacteria. Agrobacteria genetically modify plants. It’d be our own little in house Monsanto… and who doesn’t love Monsanto?? hehe

Anybody with a digital pH meter?

We’re gearing up our curriculum to take the typical maker without a Scientific background to being able to start their own projects or be involved with others going on at the space. These capabilities are here and waiting for you at the low, low cost of about 6 classes of your time.
Remember, Jello + Battery = Separation of Genes

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Carbon nanotube processing… anybody want to create some vantablack? :wink:
Seriously though, that graphene/carbon nanotube stuff would be really fun to learn.

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Ocean optics UV-Vis spectrophotometer is here. With a second lightsource we can also use it for fluorescence. We have a very good pH meter on order.

We really should get basic DNA splicing on bacteria down before the much more expensive and elaborate plant stufff, but if we train good gene jockeys they will want to advance to plants and crispr. We have too many projects that start and dont finish because i guess folks find its harder than they thought. Start with simpler things and the big picture.

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