Open hardware

This is a list of bio-relevant open hardware.

Gel electrophoresis

• IO Rodeo gel electrophoresis system

Above link is for the box and casting tray. The power supply is here.

Backup archive of this project available on archive.org.

• "Parametric" gel electrophoresis box

Open design for a nice box and casting tray.

By Tobias Wenzel from University of Cambridge, Cavendish Laboratory

Costs about $90 for the lasercut parts from Ponoko

Unfortunately the parametric feature only works via a proprietary web app that requires an account

Liquid handling robots

• Gaudi Labs OpenDrop - Open electrowetting system

Open hardware/software and can be bought in the GaudiShop

• OpenTrons OT-1

Open hardware/software pipetting robot developed and sold by the OpenTrons company. Discontinued but feasible to build.

Above link is for hardware only. Software is available here.

• Opentrons OT-2 - Partially open

Pipetting robot developed and sold by the OpenTrons company

Software is open source but hardware is not.

Full eagle board and schematic files available but no license specified. Little mechanical documentation. No pipette mechanical designs available.

Above link is for hardware only. Software is here.

• Pipettin Bot

Fully open hardware and software. Development is currently in progress.

Updates are being posted to the GOSH forum

Developed by naikymen

Microscopy

• OpenFlexure microscope

High precision electro-mechanical positioning microscope

• BrewerMicro

Webcam microscope for yeast cell counting

PCR - qPCR - LAMP

• Gaudi Labs PocketPCR

Open hardware/software and can be bought in the GaudiShop for 99 euro

• Arduino PCR

This is probably the most "make it out of scrap you have sitting around" PCR design

• Magnus qPCR (incomplete?)

Seems to have gotten part of the way to a prototype but no updates in two years

Also has a JOGL page

• NinjaPCR

Based on OpenPCR but smaller, easier to build and with updated software (no Adobe AIR)

Available to buy on their webshop for around $500

• OpenPCR

The original open PCR machine. No longer being sold.

• Open qPCR

Probably the first open hardware qPCR machine. Seems nice but $5800 for the single channel version

Appears to no longer be open hardware? (though it definitely was when released)

• qNinja (qPCR) and qNinja Light (LAMP)

Open source qPCR and LAMP machines

Overview and general info on the official website

Some info on their JOGL page

Other

• Hacketeria's Generic Lab Equipment page

Open designs for many pieces of lab equipment: Microscope, incubator, centrifuge, water bath, scale, hood, etc.

• Chi.Bio Open BioReactor

Source available, license unknown. Available for purchase (Jan 2023)

• OHL SAUCE Centrifuge (in French)

An open hardware design based on the whirligig centrifuge based on the Paperfuge