This document discusses Hackteria, an initiative focused on building DIY scientific instruments and promoting open source hardware, citizen science, and knowledge sharing. It provides examples of various DIY lab equipment that have been developed, such as microscopes, incubators, centrifuges, gel electrophoresis boxes, and PCR thermocyclers. The overall goal of Hackteria is to demystify science and make laboratory tools and experiments more accessible to amateur scientists, students, and citizen scientists through an open source approach.