Visit from Counter Culture Labs

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Mary Ward from Counter Culture Labs in Oakland, California is currently visiting Graz. Today she gave a talk @ realraum about her idea of doing microfluidic mRNA assay in space. Those were some really great ideas and nice example of putting existing stuff together to make even more exciting stuff.

Since we already have a lot of experience with microfluidics and building space-worthy satellites, this turned out to be the perfect topic for our space. Beautiful discussion and knowledge exchange ensued and will continue on Sunday. :-)

 

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Report on membershipmeeting Feb2016

This months membership meetup was more cozy than usual. Also a lot more productive, judging on what happened the days after ;-)

The highlights:

  • Easterhegg 2016. Originally we wanted to help out with cool lighting and take part as a big realraum delegation from Graz. Unfortunately tickets were quite suddenly and unexpectadly sold out. So there will be no realraum @ Easterhegg 2016 Salzburg. Too bad. Very sad. Some of us are going to Revision16 instead though.
  • Lasercutter exhaustvent and OLGA vents. Is finally going to be built. See upcoming post with pictures.
  • Curtain: Will finally happen. New curtain rod installation was finished on Wednsday and Curtain is scheduled for hanging on Friday.
  • mur.at: The future of our internet uplink is in flux. Interessting stuff will happen 2016/2017.
  • Finances: Over the next months we will test and then maybe introduce a new formal system for financing stuff in realraum.