Team:Paris Bettencourt/Practices/DILambda
Ferment It Yourself
iGEM Paris-Bettencourt 2O15
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Summary
DI-lambda is an open source spectrophotometer(video 1). In 2014, members of our team began working with high school students through the Open Science School association. Very soon, we were wishing for cheap and easy-to-understand lab equipment. We realized that a basic spectrophotometer, with open documentation, could teach both lab methods and the principles behind them, all at a price low enough for students to use, share and break as often as learning requires.
A spectrophotometer measures the absorbance of light at a certain wavelength. Our device achieves this with open hardware and source code freely available on github. DI-lamba features accuracy equalling top commercial models at a very low price, and is also capable of fluorescence measurements.
Video 1: Presentation video of our tool submitted for the iGEM COLOMBIA low cost synbio challenge. Download Video