Synthetic biology is a biotechnology that will make most of us wonder why we ever got so excited about the internet. In the future. Ever since I started being curious about synthetic biology, almost two years ago, I've been trying to get my head around it and my hands on it. And over the past two weeks, I got offered an amazing opportunity to do so. Jim Haseloff at the University of Cambridge invited me to participate in the igem crash course, a two-week intense immersion in the world of synthetic biology. I also got offered the chance to present some of the RCA synbio projects and lead an arduino workshop. Big thank you to the Jim, Jim, Gos & James for this amazing opportunity and general good times. And now, back to the present ...