Excuse my typing, I've just been up for a few hours and I've made my deadline for SB 5.0 =]<p>... but for HN.. you guys get it early<p>I present to you my fellow hackers:<p>https://github.com/delinquentme/LH001<p>....I call it the 'LH001' , it is: open source, arduino based, 96 well microplate, peristaltic pump, liquid handler<p>running: open protocol controls ( in browser or over wire ),
In Ruby on Rails<p>And here it is in person:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZY5IY5CZ1es<p>Questions? Critiques? Thoughts?<p>So, do I have HN's permission to change my twitter bio to include "biohacker" ?
Hi I'm a postdoc in biology and just stumbled across this as I was thinking of ways to use electronics to help automate things in the lab. This is very neat and impressive, keep it up! I look forward to seeing it in action. What is your background by the way? If you're interested I was thinking of playing around and maybe building a PCR (for fun) and, more practically, a 96-well plate auto-washer (for those laborious ELISA wash steps -- basically it's filling the wells to the top, usually 400ul, then vacuum sucking it all off, repeat 3 times). I bet you could do that, maybe offer me some tips if I do try it? I have some experience coding with the PicKit but was thinking maybe the Arduino is the way to go in the future.<p>Thanks for sharing your creations!
I've watched the video and read the description on github... I still can't understand what does it do. Does it have something to do with this : <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquid_handling_robot" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquid_handling_robot</a> ?
I'm not really a lab person (or I haven't been for years now), but doesn't stuff like this already exist? What does this have that the current technology does not?<p>This is interesting, but you gotta sell it to us!