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DropBot v2.1 hardware designs released
We just pushed up the v2.1 hardware designs to the git server. You can find instructions for ordering PCBs and a zip file containing all of the KiCAD, and gerber files on the wiki. This new design is a minor update to the v2.0 series. The biggest changes are: The new high-voltage switching boards are […]
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DropBots in the wild
About a month ago, we received an email from Markus Haapala from the University of Helsinki with some photos of their newly built DropBot system. This represents an exciting milestone for us as the first DropBot built outside of the Wheeler Lab! We’ve started a wiki page where we are hoping that people can link […]
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University of Toronto article on DropBot workshop
The University of Toronto Faculty of Arts and Science just posted a nice writeup on their homepage featuring on our recent workshop.
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Workshop wrap-up
We just wrapped up our first DropBot workshop where we hosted 13 researchers from Brazil, England, Norway, Estonia, Taiwain, the United States, and Canada. Day 1 began with an introduction to Digital Microfluidics by Aaron Wheeler (slides). Then Ryan Fobel presented an overview of the DropBot system (slides) and led participants through the assembly of […]
DropBot workshop July 14-15th, 2014
Come join us this summer to learn to build and operate your very own DropBot system! We’re planning to host up to 15 people to at the University of Toronto for two full days of hands-on training. Checkout the website for more details and to register.
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Grand Challenges Canada Proposal
Each year, an estimated 110,000 children are born with Congenital Rubella Syndrome and >100,000 die of measles. The diagnostic labs required to monitor and combat these diseases perform 2 million tests per year, and the associated costs present a major obstacle to the elimination of these diseases. We just applied for a grant with Grand […]
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Announcing DropBot 2.0
We just released version 2.0 of the DropBot hardware. The new system is completely redesigned to be more compact, easier to build and offers many performance improvements. Over the next few weeks, we’ll be posting detailed instructions for people who want to build their own.
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Open Hardware Summit
Edit: slides from the presentation are available here. Ryan will be speaking and demoing DropBot at MIT on September 6th as part of the 2013 Open Hardware Summit.
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