Often in the laboratory scientists need to make multiple samples of solutions and thus they need to pipette a common solution many times. However the motions of pipetting samples multiple times become very strenuous and repetitive while introducing human error. To remedy this problem, an automated pipetter can be implemented to pipette the solutions that the scientist would normally have to do manually. Automated pipetting not only saves scientists from this repetitive and arduous task, but it also allows scientists to perform other tasks while the solutions are being pipetted.

Although there are many automated pipetting models already in the market such as the Sias Xantus and the Hamilton Elisa STARlet, these can be quite expensive. Our goal was to create an open-source solution that would be cheap and easy to create and assemble. Using the open-source Fab@Home 3D printer as our foundation, we designed our own automated pipetter.

Automated Pipetter Abstract