Right to Repair–for Your Body.
The Four Thieves Vinegar Collective is an anarchist collective dedicated to enabling access to medicines and medical technologies to those who need them but don’t have them.
MicroLab 1.0 just dropped!
The upgrade so good we’re pretending it’s the first version.
Featuring:
- A new Reactor Core with vastly upgraded chemical resistance
- Simpler, more powerful, and safer off-the-shelf heat source
- A bunch of usability improvements including an upgraded screen
- An entirely new build system to create disk images
- Support for multiple languages (translators and polyglots hit us up!)
The future is now, old man! Read all about it here.
Projects
Microlab Suite
The MicroLab is a DIY automated chemical reactor that you can assemble with commonly available hardware. The MicroLab works together with a suite of apps to guide the discovery and production of lifesaving drugs.
Microlab
A DIY Controlled Lab Reactor for small molecule organic chemistry
Chemhacktica
A reverse synthesis tool to discover novel reaction pathways
Apothecarium
A drag-and-drop tool for writing Microlab “recipes” – accessed through Vinni
Vinni
A virtual research assistant that ties the software suite together (early alpha)
Tooth Seal
Make a cavity-repairing solution of Nanoparticle Silver Fluoride at home. Use it to stop a cavity in progress or apply it ahead of time and bolster your enamel with anti-microbial silver particles. The treatment is simple, cheap, and effective.
Emergency Suite
In an emergency where every second counts, there are a few things to have on hand. These include medicines like epinephrine, devices like defibrillators, and off-the-shelf products like sports oxygen.
The Emergency Room Suite is a collection of lifesaving technologies that can save your life or buy time for an ambulance to arrive.
Make your own Emergency Room.
AED
(In Development)
Sports O2
Posts
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HRT Reagent Testing with DanceSafe Kits
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It’s finally here. The MicroLab 1.0
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“BioTerrorism Will Save Your Life” at CCC 2024
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Announcing the AnaLickTickle Suite
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What’s Next for the MicroLab?
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“Eradicating Hepatitis C with Bio-Terrorism” at DEFCON 32
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Vyvanse Synthesis with ChemHacktica
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New Microlab, Who Dis?
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The Philosophy of Torrenting Pharmaceuticals
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Four Thieves on TAUVOD
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How to Connect with Our Projects
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New Year, New Microlab
In the Media
The Four Thieves Vinegar Collective has been featured in a variety of media outlets for our work. This has included coverage for our DIY EpiPen, our MicroLab chemical reactor, and our abortion cards, among other topics. We’ve graced the pages of Newsweak, IEEE Spectrum, Vice, Slashdot, WIRED, NPR affiliate KQED, and a handful of others.
You can see stories and interviews on our media page. If you’d like to set up an interview or get involved, check out our contact page. And if you’d like to find ways to get involved, read more about what we do and how you can do it too!
And as always: keep each other healthy, keep each other safe. ❤️
