cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/364981
I’ve spent 1-2 years designing everything, even bought many parts to start building and written some code. But I realize that a project like this can’t be successful without a community.
I’ll be brief here: such a device would help bring many of the coming medical advances to the masses, even to people that can’t afford them, as well as make research cheaper for non-corporate-backed groups.
If you think this is important, I could share what’s been done and we could discuss ideas, get organized, find people with skills that would like to help, etc.
What is a solid state lab?
Basically a lab-on-chip, that is, a relatively small device that can automate some laboratory tasks. Most LoCs are special purpose (e.g. pharmacy pregnancy tests or COVID tests); my goal is to design one that can automate a wide variety of tasks and is cheap and Open Source.
That is nuts. I can’t believe I’ve never heard of this before.
I have a friend who is a biotechnologist, I could ask them what the hell he could use this for.
Well, I hope to finish it as soon as possible. Unfortunately I’ve made very little progress this summer… My goal it synthesize proteins and DNA, which would make research much cheaper.
I am going to show them this post and see what they think about it, they were planning to do a Python course so this will probably make it easier but I doubt they can contribute to code.
No worries, at this stage it’s mostly CAD designs that are slowing me down…
