Tekla Labs is excited to announce the winners of our first-ever design contest, PrintMYLab.  Check out the winning entries here.

We’re working to make all the printable file for the designs available soon, complete with instructions documents for the designs requiring some degree of assembly.  Stay tuned and go Science!

Tekla Labs member Lina Nilsson has interviewed social entrepreneurs about their paths in developing international projects and products. Read about lessons from initiatves including WE CARE Solar and NextDrop and competitions including the Global Social Venture Competition and Big Ideas@Berkeley  in the Berkeley Science Review Spring 2012 issue:  Planting Seeds: Lessons learned from global social entrepreneurs

We’re hosting our first symposium!

May 1st. 12-4 pm. Banatao Auditorium, Sutardja Hall, at UC Berkeley

Learn more and register for free at: buildforchange.eventbrite.com

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Tekla Labs’ 3D printing competition is in the final stretch.  Enter now to win oscilloscopes, kindles, tools for your shed, Make magazine subscriptions, and more!

Read about the competition, and about Tekla Labs, in this recent blog from PC World: Tekla Labs Wants To Help You Print Your Own Lab

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The most recent series in Nature’s Soapbox Science blog focuses on different ways scientists worldwide are funding their research in the current economic climate. Tekla Labs, Kickstarter, and Petridish are all featured as new avenues for scientists to fufill their research needs in the face of decreasing federal funding and parallel increases in crowdsourcing and social networking.

As part of this discussion, see Tekla Labs’ text on Soapbox for our ideas on engaging individual scientists as active global citizens.

Share your ideas!

Check out this write-up about Tekla Labs in UC Berkeley Engineering’s magazine Innovations.

and of course Tekla Labs couldn’t agree more. Go Make!
To see some of the type of creative stuff in the talk for yourself (or to showcase your own designs!), go to one of the Maker Faires. The next Bay Area Maker Faire is May 19 & 20. NY’s edition is in September.

Tekla Labs’ 3D printing competition is on and the first designs have been submitted! We’ll be acccepting submissions until the end of April.

There have been some questions about the ownership/sharing of submitted designs: we’re encouraging everyone to be as open as possible and to share their designs through our website or other online portals. See the competition guidelines for details of our open license suggestion. However, this is ultimately up to you, and feel free to suggest alternatives that work for you!

In addition, Instructables is hosting an even larger competition – Make it Real – with $100,000 in prizes for the best designs! And best of all, you can submit the same designs to both competitions!  Thanks to Instructables again for sponsoring our competition at the same time as they are running their own and for supporting “2-for-1″ dual submissions.

Tekla Labs’ competition:

This coming Monday, February 27th, Tekla Labs will be demoing some designs we are working on at the BioCurious hackerspace in Sunnyvale, CA. Join us there to hear more about what designs we are working on, and test out some of our recently build DIY lab equipment. Space is limited, so sign up soon!

DIY Research Grade Equipment for Laboratories in Developing Regions
Monday, February 27, 2012, 6:30 PM
BioCurious: 845 Stewart Drive, Suite C, Sunnyvale, CA

Chemical & Engineering News just published a great article, Makeshift Chemistry, on the need for affordable lab equipment–featuring Tekla Labs and other interesting projects to increase research capacity in emerging regions!