Re: [DIYbio] Re: Low cost PCR(under development)

On 06/30/2014 11:04 AM, Dakota Hamill wrote:
> It can't hold 96 samples, and requires oil due to no heated lid,

Heated lids are not essential. Absence of unwanted heat flow is.
My concept will do fast heat flow and even heat distribution without
a separate hater in the lid.

The "lid" won't look like a lid, and will not be near the sample vials.
The swirling air will be near the sample vials.

On 06/30/2014 01:26 PM, Cory Tobin wrote:> the tube block has a lower mass
> than the OpenPCR block.

Having a non-block with zero mass is even better.

On 06/30/2014 06:35 PM, Nathan McCorkle wrote:> do some neat target detection stuff with something like
> differential scanning calorimetry

OK... melting and glass transition phase changes...

Are you meaning measuring temperatures with fine precision inside or next to the
sample vial and comparing heat flow from the heater source by Watts delivered?

The usual plastic vial might get in the way -- maybe it should be silicon glass,
and the sample size would have to have more mass than usual, or the machine would have to have
super insulation. Sounds non-low-cost at first glance.

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