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.
- 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
- 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
- Vast library of plasmids
- Large collection of strains.
- Request up to 24 per year free of charge.
- Vast collection of strains.
- Intermittently sells open wetware plasmids and strains on etsy or twitter
- Made an open library of E. coli plasmids for making various colors
- Focused on teaching supplies and stocks a small selection of strains and plasmids
Reagents and consumables
These will be mostly US based businesses.
- 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
- Ebay seller. Loading dyes, ladder mixes, syringe filters
- 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.
- 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
- 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.
- 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