DIY Microfluidics
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Stuff from wetPONG
HomeMade Microfluidics on wetPONG
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Nail Studio Micro Fluidics
Nail studios are the place where girls who now what is hot hang out. These studios are modern labs with crazy hight tech devices and sophisticated materials. Look what they have:
Other projects
https://beaverworks.ll.mit.edu/CMS/bw/Open_Source_Microfluidics
http://science-practice.com/blog/2015/01/29/low-tech-microfluidics/
http://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.1002110
Enabling Microfluidics: from Clean Rooms to Makerspaces download paper here: File:Kong2017_Enabling_Microfluidics_in_Makerspaces.pdf
Advanced DIY Microfluidics
Just a Hack! How did he do that... awesome!
Preparing the slide
Draw a nice pattern with InkScape
Putting (black) tape on a glas slide. Cut it with a sharp knife or with a DIY laser cutter 8-)
DIY laser cutter:[1]
The slide with the cut tape
Peel of the tape carefully
Some sample slides
PDMS Casting
Putting the slides in casting boxes
Cast with PDMS and cure at 60°C for about 1 hour.
Remove the cast
Plasma activate a clean glas slide and the PDMS piece (where to get the plasma from?)
Put the PDMS piece back into a clean box and cover with a tube holder plate. Punch the holes.
Attatch tubes and capture the microflow with a webcam stage.
Parts lasercut from acrylic in the FabLab Lucern.
File with drawings of the cast forms and webcam stage: File:UFlow Casts.pdf