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Last week, four members of the Wheeler Lab departed for Kenya to perform a field-validation study for measles and rubella using a new version of the DropBot. The new system (which we refer to as the Measles/Rubella-BOX or MR-BOX) is capable of performing four simultaneous sandwich ELISAs in about 40 minutes using a chemiluminescent readout. […]

Earlier this Spring, we were contacted by Urs Gaudenz from GaudiLabs and he told us about a low-cost, DIY-friendly DMF platform he was developing along with collaborators from the Bioflux project, called the OpenDrop. The OpenDrop is a fully integrated device that is not much bigger than an Arduino Uno. It does not require any […]

We’re happy to announce the release of Microdrop v1.0 (Windows installer). A list of changes can be found here. Note that if you have previously installed a pre 1.0 version, you should uninstall it before installing the latest version. This release is also available as a self-extracting portable version which you can run from a […]

When you’re ordering small batches of PCBs, it is often cheaper to merged the gerber files for several board designs onto a single panel. We do this using a tool called gerbmerge. If you download the electronics zip file from the wiki, it contains a sub-directory called merged gerbers which contains gerber files for a […]

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 […]