Algae Culture at Home

Experimental Flat-Panel Photobioreactor:

Grow-> extract -> distill to make biofuel:

http://www.ehow.com/how_5982439_use-algae-biodiesel-fuel.html

Algea incubator with arduino controlled CO2 pump, simple resistive heater and some led lightning

fabbing the plexi parts in the FabLab / lights on

Algae Hacking at GaudiLabs (June 2012)

Picking Algae Cells / Patch Clamp

Setup using a CD-ROM reading head for XY micro-positioning of a small glas capillary. The coil head is controlled using an arduino. The coils are directely connected to the PWM output pins.

Picking head mounted on a XY-table for macro adjustments using the two stepper motors.

Imgae of the capillary. String algae and single cell algae in size comparison. Positioning is very precise (+/- 5 um),aspiring the algae is not yet reliable.

Discussed some theory on patch clamping cells brought in by Ralf Weise.

We need the Chara Corallina algae with single cells as big a 2x20mm.

Let's go for algae hunting...