<div dir="ltr">In case you haven't seen this, check it out. I met Will in NY at Genspace, he should be in the bay area later this year and plans to come by The Omni. Really great work here, tricking out some open hardware CNC equipment for rapid, reproducible science equipment!<div>
<br></div><div>// Matt<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Will Canine</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:info@opentrons.com">info@opentrons.com</a>></span><br>
Date: Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 8:04 PM<br>Subject: OpenTrons DIY BioBot BETA Release<br>To: matt <<a href="mailto:mattsenate@gmail.com">mattsenate@gmail.com</a>><br><br><br><u></u>
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OpenTrons DIY Liquid Handling Robot and App BETA Release!
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DIY BioBot & OpenTrons App</h1>
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<span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;font-family:arial;font-size:15px;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Hello from the </span><a href="http://opentrons.us8.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=000595683fb96c5fb3c54cf53&id=faa2867730&e=a9fbcc8ec2" style="text-decoration:none;word-wrap:break-word;color:#6dc6dd;font-weight:normal" target="_blank"><u style="background-color:transparent;color:#1155cc;font-family:arial;font-size:15px;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">OpenTrons</u></a><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;font-family:arial;font-size:15px;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> team!</span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin:1em 0;padding:0;color:#606060;font-family:Helvetica;font-size:15px;text-align:left"><span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;font-family:arial;font-size:15px;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">It is an exciting day! We have been getting ready to show you all the open-source DIY liquid handling robot we have been developing at <a href="http://opentrons.us8.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=000595683fb96c5fb3c54cf53&id=a8908627a6&e=a9fbcc8ec2" style="word-wrap:break-word;color:#6dc6dd;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">Genspace</a> for a long time. Couldn’t be more excited to announce the DIY BioBot 1.0 to the DIYBio list! </span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin:1em 0;padding:0;color:#606060;font-family:Helvetica;font-size:15px;text-align:left"><span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;font-family:arial;font-size:15px;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">We are hosting the BOM, control app, assembly instructions, and getting-started guide on Synbiota: </span><a href="http://opentrons.us8.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=000595683fb96c5fb3c54cf53&id=cf85d14b0e&e=a9fbcc8ec2" style="text-decoration:none;word-wrap:break-word;color:#6dc6dd;font-weight:normal" target="_blank"><u style="background-color:transparent;color:#1155cc;font-family:arial;font-size:15px;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Check out how you can make one yourself for under $2000USD!</u></a></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin:1em 0;padding:0;color:#606060;font-family:Helvetica;font-size:15px;text-align:left"><span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;font-family:arial;font-size:15px;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><u>Hardware</u>: All the parts for a DIY BioBot are off the shelf (buy them from </span><a href="http://opentrons.us8.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=000595683fb96c5fb3c54cf53&id=b3bd81cc49&e=a9fbcc8ec2" style="text-decoration:none;word-wrap:break-word;color:#6dc6dd;font-weight:normal" target="_blank"><u style="background-color:transparent;color:#1155cc;font-family:arial;font-size:15px;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">OpenBuilds</u></a><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;font-family:arial;font-size:15px;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> or </span><a href="http://opentrons.us8.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=000595683fb96c5fb3c54cf53&id=47df85d3f1&e=a9fbcc8ec2" style="text-decoration:none;word-wrap:break-word;color:#6dc6dd;font-weight:normal" target="_blank"><u style="background-color:transparent;color:#1155cc;font-family:arial;font-size:15px;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Inventables</u></a><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;font-family:arial;font-size:15px;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">, etc) or 3D printed (print in ABS -- stronger than PLA and autoclavable), so you can make it all yourself. You use your own hand micropipette for the liquid handling -- with most pipette brands, every size, any number of channels will fit in the BioBot with minimal modification.</span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin:1em 0;padding:0;color:#606060;font-family:Helvetica;font-size:15px;text-align:left"><span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;font-family:arial;font-size:15px;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><u>Electronics</u>: BioBot uses the </span><a href="http://opentrons.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=000595683fb96c5fb3c54cf53&id=10e4ef5d57&e=a9fbcc8ec2" style="text-decoration:none;word-wrap:break-word;color:#6dc6dd;font-weight:normal" target="_blank"><u style="background-color:transparent;color:#1155cc;font-family:arial;font-size:15px;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">TinyG</u></a><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;font-family:arial;font-size:15px;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> motor controller, an awesome piece of tech from Syntheos, to run the robot’s six stepper motors. </span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin:1em 0;padding:0;color:#606060;font-family:Helvetica;font-size:15px;text-align:left"><span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;font-family:arial;font-size:15px;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><u>Software</u>: We are using Cordova for this BETA version of the OpenTrons control app: HTML5 interface on top of an Android plug-in sends the TinyG motor controller JSON wrapped g-code over Bluetooth serial. The source code is </span><a href="http://opentrons.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=000595683fb96c5fb3c54cf53&id=ac56a7ce3e&e=a9fbcc8ec2" style="text-decoration:none;word-wrap:break-word;color:#6dc6dd;font-weight:normal" target="_blank"><u style="background-color:transparent;color:#1155cc;font-family:arial;font-size:15px;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">right here</u></a><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;font-family:arial;font-size:15px;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">. </span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin:1em 0;padding:0;color:#606060;font-family:Helvetica;font-size:15px;text-align:left"><span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;font-family:arial;font-size:15px;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">We are also working on an open BLE service for automation modules -- things like centrifuges, incubators, spectrometers, etc -- as part of the OpenTrons automation platform. We are hoping that other developers will be interested in building on the OpenTrons with their own modules and tools! </span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin:1em 0;padding:0;color:#606060;font-family:Helvetica;font-size:15px;text-align:left"><span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;font-family:arial;font-size:15px;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">OpenTrons’ mission is to provide open, affordable, and easy to use automation equipment and empower a new generation of biodevelopers with the tools to change modern biotech. To that end, </span></span><span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;font-family:arial;font-size:15px;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">we are spending the summer working with factories to develop a plug-and-play BioBot liquid handler that we will be selling for under $2000 starting in 2015 -- <em><strong>keep an eye out for our crowdfunding/presale campaign this November! </strong></em></span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin:1em 0;padding:0;color:#606060;font-family:Helvetica;font-size:15px;text-align:left"><span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;font-family:arial;font-size:15px;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Please dont hesitate to reach out to </span><a href="mailto:info@opentrons.com" style="text-decoration:none;word-wrap:break-word;color:#6dc6dd;font-weight:normal" target="_blank"><u style="background-color:transparent;color:#1155cc;font-family:arial;font-size:15px;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">info@opentrons.com</u></a><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;font-family:arial;font-size:15px;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> with any questions, comments, ideas, advice, to be added to the early-bird sales list, or whatever! We are always interested in hearing what the community has to say. </span></span></p>
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