ESP Biography

Interested in biology? Interested in games? Come to our session on biotic games and learn how to combine these interests! In this session you will combine biology, optics, fluidics, electronics, and programming to create a cool game where you interact directly with biology.

Ever wanted to build electronic gadgets but does not know where to start? In this short course we will teach you the basics of designing DIY embedded projects. We will use an arduino microcontroller as the processing unit, and you will learn to use both hardware and software methods to build a simple LED based game including push buttons and blinking LEDs. These knowledge will equip you for more complex electronic projects in the future.

Have you ever wondered what the future of biology will look like? What happens when we can shrink an entire laboratory onto a tiny chip? Join us in "Introduction to Microfluidics" and we will explore methods for making and using fluidic channels smaller than the width of a human hair and discuss what happens to fluids on that length scale. You will even get a chance to design and make your own simple devices.