Wichitwechkarn, Vijja Rohde, William Choudhary, Ruchi
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The Modular Automated Crop Array Online System (MACARONS) is a scalable, customisable and open-sourced platform designed for plant care, monitoring, and transportation. It offers specific dosing for individual plants, automated data logging of temperature, humidity, and images, and custom behaviours programmable in Python. Monitoring and control of...
Pooke, Francis Payne, Matthew Holder-Pearson, Lui Heaton, Doug Campbell, Jake Chase, J Geoffrey
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A low-cost ($120 NZD, $75 USD), low-power (1-year battery life), portable, and programmable syringe pump design is presented, which offers an alternative to high-cost commercial devices with limited battery life. Contrary to typical motor-driven syringe pumps, the design utilizes a compression spring coupled with a clockwork escapement mechanism to...
Bandilla, Leonhard
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Fluorescence has long been the best method for detecting bio-molecules at high sensitivity and with the possibility of easy data analysis and is routine for gel electrophoresis and much more. However, the systems for detecting the fluorophores remain expensive and thus inaccessible to many. Most commercial systems are often only optimized for one s...
Bravo-Martínez, Jorge Ortega-Tinoco, Sonia Garduño, Julieta Hernández-López, Salvador
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Stereotaxic surgery is a less invasive form of surgery that uses a three-dimensional coordinate system to place instruments at a specific location in the brain. Through this type of surgery, one can place needles among other tools within the structures of the brain. Therefore, injections can be given in order to deliver substances that cannot cross...
Bierer, Andrew M
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Development of data driven, sensor-based irrigation has become possible with recent advancements in technology, yet due to a cost-barrier to entry, equitable adoption remains out of reach. Therefore, a simple microcontroller based LoRa platform, Open_Irr, was developed in the Arduino IDE to record resistive measures of soil matric potential and aut...
Liu, Dawei Kulkarni, Apoorv Jaqua, Victoria F Cole, Christina A Pearce, Joshua M
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Tourniquets are effective for casualty-prevention in emergency situations. The use of centrally-manufactured commercial tourniquets, however, is not always possible due to supply chain disruptions. The open-source hardware model has been applied to overcome these disruptions in humanitarian crises and several low-cost digitally manufacturable open-...
Bowman, Samuel
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GNOME is a straightforward and easy to build sample handling apparatus, designed to prepare dissolved nitrogen oxide species in aqueous environmental samples. GNOME is designed to serve as a sample preparation device for downstream chemiluminescent analysis. It is based on the familiar chemistry ring stand; the major advantage scalability designed ...
Gunther, Jason Lengaigne, Jacques Girard, Mélanie Toupin-Guay, Valérie Teasdale, James T Dubé, Martine Tabiai, Ilyass
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The centrifugal spinning (CS) method could address common issues such as low production rate and high energy consumption in the industry of nonwoven textile fabrication. Similarly to cotton candy production, the high-speed rotating reservoir extrudes melt or solvent-based polymer from orifices to produce fibres. Using polymer melt avoids solvent el...
Serioli, Laura Ishimoto, Atsushi Yamaguchi, Akinobu Zór, Kinga Boisen, Anja Hwu, En-Te
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We present an unconventional approach to a common Lab-on-a-Disc (LoD) that combines a quadcopter propulsion system, a miniaturized 2.4 GHz Wi-Fi spy camera, 9.74 Watt Qi wireless power, and an Arduino into an open-source, miniaturized All-in-one powered lab-on-disc platform (APELLA). The quadcopter propulsion generates thrust to rotate (from 0.1 to...
Le, Anh Phuc Hoang Nguyen, Quang Lam Pham, Bao Hoai Cao, Thien Hoang Minh Vo, Toi Van Huynh, Khon Ha, Huong Thi Thanh
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Lateral Flow Assays (LFA) have been one of the most widely adopted technologies in clinical diagnosis over recent years, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic, due to their feasibility, compactness, and rapid readout. However, the precise dispensing of antibodies–a key part of the fabrication process–requires costly line dispenser equipment, whic...
