Hi Tom and everyone!
On Thursday, August 21, 2014 11:30:11 PM UTC+8, John Griessen wrote:
-- Hooray for DIY liquid handling robots!
We have been working on our DIY open-source liquid handling robot for over six months now, and released the first version in July. We have all the documentation on how to build and run the DIY BioBot on our Synbiota page -- everything is off-the-shelf or 3D printed, so you can easily make one yourself!
The first version of our software is available on our github as well. It runs on the TinyG micro controller and an Android device, and hopefully it lets you you quickly/easily make an automation routine and get to liquid handling.
Right now we are at Haxlr8r in Shenzhen working on building the next, plug-and-play version of the robot. We are going to launch our crowd-funding in November with robots starting at $2000USD and an anticipated early-bird delivery of April 2015 (10% of the profits from our Kickstarter will go to Genspace, our home biomakerspace). Things are going really well here, we are working with Seeed Studio to do manufacturing, and are well on the way to a complete production prototype and manufacturing plan. We will have a pretty video sneak-peak to show in a week or so -- I will put it up here where its ready for sure! :)
We are making this version of the robot fully programmable also, meaning you can write code to do biology protocols. We're launching a web-hub for people to co-develop and share creative commons automation protocols -- I am excited to start sharing experiments with you guys!
Would love to hear more about what you're hoping to automate. Most of the folks using our robot right now are using it for repetitive assay preparations, and we've used it to do some bead-wash-repeat type protocols at Genspace as well. We are hoping that with our next software version it will be easier to do more complicated things though.
We are focusing on a rapid prototyping platform for biotech, saving you time to problem-solve, not pipette. High-throughput is nice too, and our bot can hold two 12-channel pipettes at the same time with a 12 SPE bed, so it can do a lot of work, but we want a more dynamic machine that is quick to set-up and run.
Anyways, what protocols are you guys hoping to automate? Would love to work with you to develop it as a test for our machine.
Thanks!
Will
On Thursday, August 21, 2014 11:30:11 PM UTC+8, John Griessen wrote:
On 08/21/2014 01:31 AM, Tom Eberhard wrote:
> Pic of the latest build.
> What would you do with it?
A stiff gantry in a cube of reusable beams? Oh, almost anything, except with what software?
The frame looks a little too strong and too expensive for light duty liquid handling.
I envision liquid handling by the gantry "hand" to be just tens of milliliters
moving at a time. If you want to move 1 liter beakers a side conveyor would be the thing.
The cubespawn project is a lone guy working on similar frameworks and
he's percolating along to the motor control level about now -- you'd
maybe benefit talking with him. I help him with design review and idea generating some.
ROS and smoothie are the code bases he is planning on working from, how about you?
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