{"id":11590,"date":"2012-04-17T10:15:50","date_gmt":"2012-04-17T14:15:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/opportunities\/?p=11590"},"modified":"2012-04-17T10:15:50","modified_gmt":"2012-04-17T14:15:50","slug":"gig-seeing-builderpossible-co-founder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/opportunities\/2012\/04\/17\/gig-seeing-builderpossible-co-founder\/","title":{"rendered":"[GIG] Seeing Builder\/Possible Co-Founder"},"content":{"rendered":"
I’m interested in building a liquid handler:<\/div>\n
https:\/\/github.com\/delinquentme\/LH002\/raw\/master\/images\/LH002_full_01.png<\/wbr><\/wbr><\/a><\/div>\n
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From the image you can see 4 “cores” and for this specific machine I can scale up to 12 liquid handling cores .<\/div>\n
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Each core:<\/div>\n
– 2 steppers<\/div>\n
– 1 string potentiometer<\/div>\n
– 1 linear actuator<\/div>\n
– 2 physical switches<\/div>\n
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Primary machine ( runs \/ contains the cores. Grey in color in the schematic ):<\/div>\n
– 4 steppers<\/div>\n
– 4 string potentiometers<\/div>\n
– 1 power supply<\/div>\n
– 1 beagleboard \/ ?? … something that can control up to 12 of the cores mentioned above …<\/div>\n
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My initial thoughts are to connect all the cores and the primary machine to a single MC. But I need feedback between the cores and the main machine to be fast.<\/div>\n
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Example:<\/div>\n
0) Command is issued<\/div>\n
1) The microplate ( the little rectangular cubes with 8*12 array of holes ) locates under the particular liquid handling head<\/div>\n
2) The core gets confirmation that the plate is where its supposed to be<\/div>\n
3) The core extends the liquid handling head down towards the plate<\/div>\n
4) Reagents are dispensed<\/div>\n
5) Tips are ejected<\/div>\n
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So that process iterates numerous times. Can that kind of control be handled through the core processing unit? I guess that all depends on the IO speed of whatever unit I pick?<\/div>\n
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SO, the questions:<\/div>\n
1) How would you set this up?<\/div>\n
2) I don’t think I want to be flashing chips every time I run a different protocol… So how does the python web server issue the command? ( My previous iteration was via binary protocol with the MC continually polling for that next protocol )<\/div>\n
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With the right individual I’d be interested in taking on a co-founder. I think quite a bit can be done in this space, specifically with the advent of synthetic biology and the glut of genomics diagnostics which are to come.<\/div>\n
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Thanks!<\/div>\n
-Carl
\ncarlcrott@gmail.com<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m interested in building a liquid handler: https:\/\/github.com\/delinquentme\/LH002\/raw\/master\/images\/LH002_full_01.png From the image you can see 4 “cores” and for this specific machine I can scale up…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":122,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-job","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/opportunities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/opportunities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/opportunities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/opportunities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/122"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/opportunities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/opportunities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11590\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/opportunities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/opportunities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/opportunities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}