Below are some older posts that might be informative.
The old (pre-2010) Stuff journal site is housed here: http://www.lukemiller.org/journal/journal.html
Some selected posts are linked below.
For around the laboratory:
- Quantifying western blots without expensive commercial quantification software
- Rolling your own thermocouples
- Mussel spawning – this is supposed to be educational
- Simple hydrophone
- Mesocosms – temperature and tide control
For the field:
- Field equipment for intertidal experiments Part I | Part II
- Making durable cages for intertidal experiments
- Marking and tagging critters with shells
- Bee tags -useful for marking small animals
- BarnieCam – recording the secret lives of barnacles
- Waterproof intertidal video camera housing
- Brass balls for housing iButton temperature loggers
- The best boots
For the computer:
- Typing common words quickly with Word 2007
- Equation numbering in Word 2007
- Macro image stacking
- NOAA’s coastline extractor for making maps of the coast
- How high is my field site? How to find out…
- Regression tools for Matlab
- Endnote codes for citations
Miscellaneous: