The article focuses on the concept of do-it-yourself biology (DIYbio) and Rob Carlson's path to becoming a biohacker. It claims that DIYbio is an offshoot of the open-science movement which encourages an open exchange of materials, data and publications and stems as the result of the open-source software in the 1990s. It examines the ways Carlson and other biohackers fund their projects and the cost of launching an actual business.