Where to buy

= Chemicals =

Sodium bisulfate
This is sold in a very pure form as "pH minus" for swimming pool maintenance.

= Hardware =


 * Brick Labware - Frisco, Texas, USA
 * 3D printed labware. Mostly tube holders but a few other interesting things.


 * Carolina Biologicals
 * Focused on teaching supplies. Stocks a bunch of basic equipment.


 * Gaudi Labs Shop - Lucerne, Switzerland
 * Open Electrowetting system (OpenDrop), Spectrophotometer (fiber, visible only), G-code to analog converter, all open hardware


 * IO Rodeo - Pasadena, California, USA
 * Open Hardware Colorimeter and Potentiostats


 * The Odin - Austin, Texas, USA
 * Nice selection of hardware, wetware and reagents. Ships to individuals. Banned from Germany (I think)

= Services =

Sequencing

 * plasmidsaurus
 * Whole plasmid or whole bacterial genome sequencing
 * Whole plasmid starts at $15
 * Whole genome starts at $90
 * Free shipping if you drop at one of their drop boxes (there's one on Stanford's campus)

= Plasmids and strains =


 * AddGene
 * Vast library of plasmids


 * ARS Culture Collection (NRRL)
 * Large collection of strains.
 * Request up to 24 per year free of charge.


 * ATCC: American Type Culture Collection
 * Vast collection of strains.


 * ATinyGreenCell
 * Intermittently sells open wetware plasmids and strains on etsy or twitter
 * Made an open library of E. coli plasmids for making various colors


 * Carolina Biologicals
 * Focused on teaching supplies and stocks a small selection of strains and plasmids

= Reagents and consumables =

These will be mostly US based businesses.


 * Algae Research Supply
 * Algae cultures and a few related reagents and consumables


 * BioBasic - U.S. and Canada
 * Very affordable. E.g. miniprep kits for under $1 per reaction


 * Bioland Scientific
 * Ebay seller. Loading dyes, ladder mixes, syringe filters


 * The Odin
 * Smaller selection than the larger companies but aimed toward small labs and affordable.
 * Sells to anyone, though I believe they got banned from selling in Germany.


 * Quartzy
 * Has a built-in comparison shopping tool with ordering.
 * Used to be the go-to tool for Counter Culture Labs but started charging $100 per user per year for non-profits just for access


 * p212121
 * Cheap but needs commercial address and sometimes requires more for some chemicals (even sometimes very safe ones).

= Fabrication services =

Lasercutting
Note that PCB manufacturing companies will sell metal solder paste stencils which might be usuable if only thin metal is required.


 * Ponoko
 * Plastic, wood, rubber, leather, fabrics, cardboard, paper
 * A bit pricey but local to Oakland
 * Instant online quote generation


 * oshcut - Metal only lasercutting
 * Great choice of materials
 * Up to 1" steel and aluminum! Some materials limited to about 0.13" thickness
 * Affordable with instant quote generation