@tinker There's a lot of useful chemicals for which simple microfluidic reactors could be built and validated to produce the desired target at a reasonable purity level. Unfortunately, microfluidic research is currently mostly dominated with clinical dianostics interests and a wee bit microrobotics interests; tabletop small-batch medicine manufacturing is not of particular interest to any major funders. But citizen chemical engineers might have some interest in doing this work without caring about the typical profit motives.Oh, and don't forget — the era of hobbyist genetic engineering is nearly at hand, as well. I think there's already companies offering children's kits for making yeast glow by inserting the gene for luciferin and such things. One day soon, somebody is going to come up with a Genetic Engineering Arduino, and then making all sorts of funky proteins on the kitchen tablewill be a child's play.@404mediaco @jasonkoebler @aeischeid @4thievesvinegar @mixael