[DIYbio] Automation flow (was: BioPrinter won 1st Prize)

On 03/01/2013 05:53 PM, Jonathan Cline wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 1, 2013 at 2:29 PM, Patrik D'haeseleer <patrikd@gmail.com <mailto:patrikd@gmail.com>> wrote:
> I really would love to see someone build a bioprinter that uses polar coordinates. But so far I haven't heard any arguments to
> make me think that approach would be any easier or better than what we did.
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> Automation flow.
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> I've asked a dozen lab automation experts these same types of questions and received blank looks so either it is a really dumb
> idea or it's so obvious that no one has thought of it yet. hah! Actually it's because the current state of the industry is a
> mix of human hands and machine. The human hands require rectangles.


Maybe there is a breakthrough on the verge of happening as people finally give up
doing so much with warm bodies carrying and positioning things, (inaccurately, and with dirt),
and start doing more programming of networks of liquid/vial/plate/capsule/capillary/slide/array/microarray machines.

I think it is going to be ethernet connected machines, how about you?


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