Genetically engineered salmon - It's whats for dinner!
Genetically modified salmon has reached the dinner table. AquaBounty Technologies, the Maynard, Massachusetts, company that developed the fish, announced on 4 August that it has sold 10,000 pounds to customers in Canada.
A lot of the projects we do on Mikey's Lab are powered by a Raspberry Pi; these cheap and easily available devices make for a great starting point for just about any maker project. Instead of explaining the same steps over and over for each of our projects, I have collected them here. This video will get the Raspberry Pi booting to a common place for all of our projects to start from. In the video I use a Raspberry Pi 2 model B but these steps apply to all the Raspberry Pi's except the compute module.
Raspbian download page: https://goo.gl/8QDXSg
SD Card Formatter: https://goo.gl/kEK4Zc
Win32DiskImager: https://goo.gl/cDB1SF
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewenz7HI0y0
Chemists have found a set of simple reactions that, using the raw materials available, can produce close cousins of all four of the nucleotide found in RNA.
It is not a perfect match to the building blocks in RNA however it is enough to believe these scientists are gettinging close to identifying the processes that started life.
As reported in: Nature Communications
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWIxbUGGKJQ
Today in the lab we are taking a look at the basic control of a stepper motor.
We will dive into what a stepper motor is, how they work and why you would use them.
For our experiments we will be using an Arduino Pro Mini and a A4998 Bipolar stepper motor controller.
Stepper motors are one of the many types of motors you are likely to encounter in your maker hobby. They fill the need for motors that can be very precisely controlled, and rotate indefinitely.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HgOx24Wo7Qc
The 10 percent of the brain myth is a widely perpetuated urban legend that most or all humans only use 10 percent (or some other small percentage) of their brains. It has been miss-attributed to many people, including Albert Einstein.
The fact is that our brains are VERY expensive organs, looking at caloric and other resource usage. As such using only a portion of our brains would not make evolutionary sense. That is to say there would be no advantage to natural selection allowing a genetic sequence that caused such wasteful allocation of biologic resources to continue to be prevalent.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ten_percent_of_the_brain_myth
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Part 1: https://youtu.be/IHBKeb3CwSo
With this video we are continuing an awesome build.
We are going to be building an internet aware, Bluetooth enabled 8x8x8 led cube.
In this video we begin assembling the layers of the cube!
I know it is long, but there is a lot of detail in the video :)
So lab coat up! We are going to learn something today!
The videos that have inspired the build, are linked below.
chr - finished cube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6mXM-oGggrM
Kevins - cube demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=guppB4cK3oU
CHR's Instructables Article - https://goo.gl/9yoicb
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AATGIkE_6fY
With the announcement of the release of the SDK, we will have at our disposal all of the functionality of the Google Assistant in the device we choose to use it in!
For our purposes we will be using it first with a Raspberry Pi 3 in our up coming magic mirror project.
So stay tuned and subscribe to catch all the content as we engineer and build some really cool things with the Google Assistant SDK!
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXd3s_V4-0c
A work bench power supply is one of the most useful and often expensive pieces of kit for someone just getting into electronics. With recent developments there are some variable power supplies that are available from Chinese suppliers. However I cam across this that offers an even lower priced stepping stone into the world of electronics.
I would like to start out by saying this is not a paid review, I purchased the device with my own money and am in no way affiliated with the sellers.
Purchased for $10 CAD from a ebay seller, it converts a standard ATX computer power supply into a lab bench power supply.
Yes I know there are lots of videos out there showing us how to modify the supply itself to function like this does, and those work and they are a great start. But i can not in good conscious recommend that one of the first electronics projects someone attempts be with live mains voltage. This little board offers the same end result, with none of the burn you house down potential :)
This little board will give you -12v, 12v, 5v and 3.3v, with a large amount of amperage available. While not as useful and a variable supply with current limiting, these voltages are the standard one used in most hobby electronics.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GvNNtk_sl7o
What is up makers? Today I'm bringing our one on one interview at Toronto Comicon with actor and puppeteer Tim Rose who played Admiral Ackbar in Star Wars!
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