Is DIY-BIO the Personal Computing of the 21st Century?

Last last year I ran across the following article in IEEE Spectrum: Tools for Would-Be Biohackers.  Since I have a daughter with interests in Biology, I considered getting her one of these “mini-labs” as a Christmas gift.  The high cost had me wondering if this was an outrageous idea.  It works out that adjusting for inflation, …

Unboxing: XMachines Lorei 3D Printer

Here’s a quick post just to show the unboxing video for our new 3D printer, an XMachines Lorei. It arrived in a pretty large box, much bigger than I expected.  Here’s a photo, with a spool of filament next to it (the spool is 8″ in diameter). Ok, here’s the unboxing videos, no editing, and not …