NanoHacking: Converging Life and Tech at the Nanoscale - BiofiliA HighSchool, Finland

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"Beginning with the telescopes and microscopes of the Renaissance, tools have played a critical role in advancing science and technology. Scientific tools provide us with abilities to observe and understand nature."

"The innovators of 1600 were hackers before the word existed; they proposed open sharing of ideas for the benefit of humanity. Isaac Newton, Robert Hooke, Descartes, and the other scientists of the late 1600s could not have inaugurated the greatest scientific innovation of all time—the invention of modern science itself—without the Hackers of the 1600s. The Renaissance’s secretive structure was hacked, and it inspired the Scientific Revolution."

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Brief Description

Schedule, 2 - 5. December 2013

Participants

max 20 motivated students from the partner high-school, age x-x

Where

Who

Mentor - Dr. Marc Dusseiller (CH)

Dr. Marc R. Dusseiller is a transdisciplinary scholar, lecturer for micro- and nanotechnology, cultural facilitator and artist. He works in an integral way to combine science, art and education. He performs DIY (do-it-yourself) workshops in lo-fi electronics, hardware hacking, microscopy, music and robotics. He was co-organizing Dock18, Room for Mediacultures, diy* festival (Zürich, Switzerland), KIBLIX 2011 (Maribor, Slovenia), workshops for artists, schools and children as the former president (2008-12) of the Swiss Mechatronic Art Society, SGMK. Currently, he is developing means to perform bio- and nanotechnology research and dissemination (Hackteria | Open Source Biological Art) in a DIY fashion in kitchens, ateliers and in developing countries. http://hackteria.org http://www.mechatronicart.ch http://www.dusseiller.ch/labs/

Partner - Biofilia, Aalto University

Assistant 1 - Marika Hellman

Assistant 2 - tba

Detailed Schedule

Materials

Infrastructure needed

  • laser-printer for transparencies
  • General tools for making, cutters, tape, scissors, pliers etc...
  • Hot Glue
  • (Soldering Irons)

Labware that should be there anyway

  • General labware, glass beakers, plastic ware
  • General lab instruments, stirrer, balances
  • 50 ml centrifuge (eg. Falcon) tubes
  • eppendorf tubes 1.5 ml
  • plastic pipettes
  • plastic containers, IKEA staayle
  • goggles
  • gloves

to buy/order

  • 50 mw 532nm Green Laser Module
  • Lenses
  • H2O2 15% - 30%
  • DVD-R 3-4 discs to break/hack
  • cuvettes multipack. details will follow
  • access to a laser-cutter / FabLab to prepare the spectrophotometer kit?

dusjagr brings

  • NanoBots
  • Silver Nitrate
  • electronics for Vive-la-Resistance
  • PCB material
  • NaSO4
  • NaOH
  • UV lamp?
  • aerogel
  • plastic syringes

Furter readings and interesting links

NanoSmano

see NanoŠmano - LifeSystems for an intersting art/sci collaborative research project, that happend 3 times in Ljubljana.

UCLA Sci|Art Nanolab

http://summer.artscicenter.com/