Old Computer Hard Drives Upcycled to COVID Tests

River D'Almeida, Ph.D
2 min readFeb 1, 2022

The kit costs $51 to make

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Article via LabRoots

Have you heard about the COVID test vending machines? These ‘self-serve’ testing protocols are part of efforts to control the tsunami of infections that have taken over communities across the world associated with the rise of Omicron.

River D'Almeida, Ph.D

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