While this sounds like a fun project, if you want a cheap PCR machine, why not buy a used one for a few hundred bucks? Getting molecular biology to work is goi

While this sounds like a fun project, if you want a cheap PCR machine, why not buy a used one for a few hundred bucks? Getting molecular biology to work is going to be hard enough without trying to reinvent the wheel and re-do the relatively uninteresting, but highly optimized engineering that has gone into these machines over the last 20 years.