Week of 03/02/11
Met with Professor Lima
Took apart old liquid dispenser apparatus from Fab@home
Planned layout for wells, tips, and original solution on the movable tray
Made appropriate measurements of well locations relative to a zero point
Designed the original solution container
Designed tip disposal sub-tray
Continued looking at source code of making Fab@home interpreter
Considered other options pertaining to keeping old interpreter
Next Steps:
Make tray setup and implement in XYZ movement code
Finalize the pipet pusher design
Finalize the pipet clamps
Continue making optimized XYZ path movement
Continue breathalyzer side project
Week of 3/23/11
Started working on GUI
Discussed ways to attach clamp
Considered ways to attach pipet pusher