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Open-source Wax RepRap 3-D Printer for Rapid Prototyping Paper-Based Microfluidics

Publishing date: 2017-08-01 Published on: Appropedia summary: This study reports on the development of a RepRap upgrade capable of converting a Prusa Mendel RepRap into a wax 3-D printer for paper-based microfluidic applications.

A user-friendly, low-cost turbidostat with versatile growth rate estimation based on an extended Kalman filter

Publishing date: 2017-07-26 Published on: PLOS ONE summary: An easy to build, affordable open source turbidostat built with 3D printed parts and an Arduino. Additionaly it uses an algorithm based on Kalman filter that can be easily adapted for different uses such as bioreactors, studies of evolution or metabolic changes.

Feasibility of a 3D-printed anthropomorphic patient-specific head phantom for patient-specific quality assurance of intensity-modulated radiotherapy

Publishing date: 2017-07-20 Published on: PLOS ONE summary: None authors: Ji Woon Yea, Jae Won Park, Sung Kyu Kim, Dong Youn Kim, Jae Gu Kim, Chan Young Seo, Won Hyo Jeong, Man Youl Jeong, Se An Oh

The €100 lab: A 3D-printable open-source platform for fluorescence microscopy, optogenetics, and accurate temperature control during behaviour of zebrafish, Drosophila, and Caenorhabditis elegans

Publishing date: 2017-07-18 Published on: PLOS Biology summary: The paper describes a €100 portable and neurogenetics lab. Built with off the shelf components and 3D printed parts it is a versatile tool that due to its modular design can be useful in different fields.

The Language of Glove: Wireless gesture decoder with low-power and stretchable hybrid electronics

Publishing date: 2017-07-12 Published on: PLOS ONE summary: This interesting paper shows that with $100 it is possible to construct a glove that uses include the ability to detect and translate sign language as well as to control a prosthetic hand.

Smartphone schlieren and shadowgraph imaging

Publishing date: 2017-07-11 Published on: Optics and Lasers in Engineering summary: This paper demonstrates a number of different schlieren and shadowgraph setups and image examples based only on a smartphone, its software applications, and some inexpensive accessories.

A method for rapid 3D scanning and replication of large paleontological specimens

Publishing date: 2017-07-05 Published on: PLOS ONE summary: None authors: Anshuman J. Das, Denise C. Murmann, Kenneth Cohrn, Ramesh Raskar link to paper: 10.1371/journal.pone.0179264 Icons made by catkuro from www.flaticon.com

Scientometric and patentometric analyses to determine the knowledge landscape in innovative technologies: The case of 3D bioprinting

Publishing date: 2017-06-29 Published on: PLOS ONE summary: Knowledge clusters and expert drivers indicate that there is a research focus on tissue engineering including the fabrication of organs, bioinks and new 3D bioprinting systems.

A lab-on-phone instrument with varifocal microscope via a liquid-actuated aspheric lens (LAL)

Publishing date: 2017-06-26 Published on: PLOS ONE summary: None authors: Yiin-Kuen Fuh, Zheng-Hong Lai, Li-Han Kau, Hung-Jui Huang link to paper: 10.1371/journal.pone.0179389 Icons made by catkuro from www.flaticon.com

A versatile and low-cost open source pipetting robot for automation of toxicological and ecotoxicological bioassays

Publishing date: 2017-06-16 Published on: PLOS ONE summary: A pipetting robot built with off the shelf components and small number of custom parts, it not only makes tedious processes automated, but it can also be used for improvement of experimental designs.