DIY Microscopy Workshop / UROŠ Field Trip

In October 2021 we hosted a knowledge exchange session with artists and scientists from the Hackteria network who were visiting the region as part of the KonS funded UROŠ (Ubiquitous Rural Open Science Hardware) project.

Participants

• Paula Pin (Spain) — paulapin.net
• Miranda Moss (South Africa) — mirandamoss.com
• Hortense Vielfaure (France) — JOGL
• Rob Canning (Ireland/Slovenia) — Zavod Rizoma
• Marc Dusseiller (Switzerland, Remote) — Hackteria

About the Residency

When the group visited Selo they brought many pieces of open hardware and biohacking paraphernalia. We investigated and tested the projects they were working on. One of the most engaging of these objects was the most simple — a DIY microscope made from an old webcam and a simple laser cut platform.

These DIY microscopes have been around for some time now but with webcam quality increasing the results possible are quite impressive. The first experiment using this was a yeast count on Kviek (Voss) yeast harvested from a batch of ale from our farmhouse brewery.

We are very grateful to Paula Pin for gifting Rizoma some equipment from her overloaded lab in a suitcase — the beginnings of the Rizoma BioHackLab.

Links

• UROŠ Project
• Hackteria DIY Microscopy
• Hackteria Microscopy Guide (PDF)

Supported By

This residency was part of UROŠ, a project within the EU funded KonS Platform for contemporary investigative art, in collaboration with the Hackteria Network and mikroBIOMIK Society.