Re: [DIYbio] DIY liquid handling robot?

Wasn't there some sub $300 CNC at biocurious that was off-the-shelf
(or at least came as a full kit)?

On Fri, Aug 2, 2013 at 1:25 PM, John Griessen <john@industromatic.com> wrote:
> On 08/01/2013 09:41 PM, Koeng wrote:
>>
>> http://2009.igem.org/Team:Washington-Software
>
>
> Even their prototype, at $700 US is a little steep to get any signups from
> this list...
> It would have to be productized and cost reduced more and sell at $300 to
> get much in sales,
> and at that price it might be a little toy like fragile, or not easy to keep
> positional accuracy.
>
> Enough engineering time would get it low enough, but then it might not sell
> enough to recover
> that real value of that time spent.  The above academic project is a quickie
> mashup
> not worth copying from the sound of this excerpt:
> http://2009.igem.org/Team:Washington-Software/Project      "each (Lego
> Mindstorms) NXT brick can
> only be connected to a maximum of 3 motors. We need 6 motors for this
> project, and use 2 NXT bricks.
> We designed and implemented a Master Slave Synchronization System using
> blue-tooth wireless"
>
> Sounds like something desperate to meet a class deadline.
>
> There's a nice open hardware project called smoothie that uses some
> inexpensive computer chips
> and can have many control outputs and has almost an OS or RTOS for
> programming motions.
> That and a review of their code and jcline's FOSS tecan code would be more
> of a start.
>
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