Some cool components machining images:
An iGEM web page of DNA
Image by jurvetson
I had a entertaining lunch with Drew Endy these days, and with a nearby iGEM group on Friday.
Right here you see my souvenirs, a cartoon primer and a web page from the Registry. Do not lick it, as each yellow spot is a paper blot of DNA. With a unique hole punch, you grab the DNA and splice it into E.Coli, the common bacteria in our intestines.
iGEM is the “International Genetically Engineered Machines” contest, where teenage little ones reprogram bacteria to smell better or execute various feats, from digital logic with flashing oscillators, to glowing arsenic detectors to biofilms that record images (a self-establishing "E.Coliroid" if you will).
Each year the projects get more ambitious, as the biological parts are added to the "open source" library of BioBricks.
Current grand prize winners have been from Slovenia and Peking.
Drew is a co-founder of iGEM and a brilliant speaker on synthetic biology. I last saw him when he was still at MIT, and I place collectively a panel with George Church and Rodney Brooks.
BIT.FALL Julius Popp
Image by Georgie Sharp
CurdnattaPhotographers present theme is Machines/ Machine Components
At Museum of Old and New Art Hobart Australia
Personal computer, electronic devices, pump, 320 magnetic valves, stainless steel basin and water