cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/364981

I’ve spent 1-2 years designing everything, even bought many parts to start building and written some code. But I realize that a project like this can’t be successful without a community.

I’ll be brief here: such a device would help bring many of the coming medical advances to the masses, even to people that can’t afford them, as well as make research cheaper for non-corporate-backed groups.

If you think this is important, I could share what’s been done and we could discuss ideas, get organized, find people with skills that would like to help, etc.

    • @[email protected]OP
      7•2 years ago

      Basically a lab-on-chip, that is, a relatively small device that can automate some laboratory tasks. Most LoCs are special purpose (e.g. pharmacy pregnancy tests or COVID tests); my goal is to design one that can automate a wide variety of tasks and is cheap and Open Source.