Re: [DIYbio] Anyone attending microtas this year?

On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 9:45 AM, John Griessen <john@industromatic.com> wrote:
> On 10/28/2014 10:53 AM, Dieter wrote:
>>
>> am wondering if any other community science type folks are in attendance.
>> Come out and talk about microfluidics.
>
>
> Am not affording it this year, even though it is 90 miles away and I have a
> place to stay there...
>
> Paper based microfluidics sounds great. Please see what you can find out
> about access
> to the proceedings. The U. of Texas will likely buy it when ready and I can
> read it there.
> The workshops sound like all are in the early phases of an industry/product
> life cycle
> -- just right for jumping in.
>
> and then there's " workshop seeks to de
> -
> mystify inertial microfluidic phenomena using a combination of live
> demos and an open
> -
> source computational tool. "
>
> I've thought up pumps that would be using inertia and be valveless:
>
> http://www.ecosensory.com/diybio/glass_diaphragm_peri_pump-1.gif
> http://www.ecosensory.com/diybio/glass_diaphragm_peri_pump-2.gif

It looks to me that the majority of those designs is valves... 'push
to squirt' is pushing a valve closed... 1,2, and 3 are all individual
valves, this is the basis for macro and micro peristaltic pumps.

Something seemingly just like your #1 model was just patented:
http://www.google.com/patents/US20140079571

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