Re: [DIYbio] What are you working on?

On Wed, Aug 17, 2016 at 2:00 PM, Nathan McCorkle <nmz787@gmail.com> wrote:
> Microfluidic production using open-source software and tools. Lately
> not much progress, but I was last working on a way to easily describe
> the connectivity of lab-on-a-chip components easily through Python
> code, which in turn talks to BRL-CAD to generate physical models,
> which can then be exported to STL files (think 3d printer software) or
> g-code (think CNC machines, laser etcher/exposers) or Bitmap files
> (think lithography masks, stencils, images for projection using DLP
> projector).
>
> Specifically the last thing I was working on was an API for connecting
> CAD 'objects' using fluidic ports, such as the center points of each
> of the 5 connections on this peristaltic pump:
> https://github.com/nmz787/python-brlcad-tcl/blob/master/examples/output/microfluidic_pump.stl
>
> (3 pneumatic connections, 2 fluidic)

Well I made some progress even if it is only for faces of a cube-like shape:
https://github.com/nmz787/python-brlcad-tcl/commit/5e57bef2f8acac4e5609e526759c5503ec129088

I think in the coming evenings I will work on g-code export, so I can
actually try making some things.

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