We are working on the design of an open hardware centrifuge based on the following questions:
For more information on how we are tackling improvements, ideas, developments look at the tests-experiments we are working on.
Based on the research done about centrifuge usage we have defined requirements and target features to focus on.
There are two sets of documentation in this repository:
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, and you should see the status of project management, tasks and priorities.Week | Products | Call | Status |
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Week 1 | GitHub repo + related_work.md + draft BoM | 1st call with mentor | Done |
Went to the lab and did usage research with scientist | |||
Week 2 | Order BoM + Dev Plan | 2nd call with mentor | Done |
Designed and sent form based on Usage analysis | Done | ||
Week 3 | Updates on development | 3rd call with mentor | Done |
Collecting Data and studying other models (of big and small centrifuges) | |||
Development planned updated, Concept generation | Not able to build because of delayed delivery of components | ||
Week 4 | Got enough results to focus on two key issues: safety and cooling, as we haven't found an open hardware solution with cooling mechanism. Safety and balancing still can be improved in the commercial centrifuges we analyzed | 4th called with mentor | Done |
Week 5 | Documenting new concepts and test cases, and updating ordering lists | 5th mentor called | Done |
Week 6 | Architecture layout for peltier module, teard down and printing of polyfuge parts | 5th mentor called |