OpenTrons: Open Source Robotic Liquid Handling
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OpenTrons: Open Source Robotic Liquid Handling
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Re: OpenTrons: Open Source Robotic Liquid Handling
#2Happy to talk to anyone about our robot! Currently have 51 machines in labs around the world doing things from serial dilutions to Gibson assembly and shipping more every week. Email info@opentrons.com to get in touch
Re: OpenTrons: Open Source Robotic Liquid Handling
#3Happy to talk to anyone about our robot! Currently have 51 machines in labs around the world doing things from serial dilutions to Gibson assembly and shipping more every week. Email info@opentrons.com to get in touch
Can these compete with something like the Hamilton Star? [0]
0. http://www.hamiltoncompany.com/products/automated-liquid-han...
Re: OpenTrons: Open Source Robotic Liquid Handling
#4Happy to talk to anyone about our robot! Currently have 51 machines in labs around the world doing things from serial dilutions to Gibson assembly and shipping more every week. Email info@opentrons.com to get in touch
Fix your website. It is unusable on an iPad. Information quality trumps hipster trendy UI crap any day of the week. This is particularly true if you are actually trying to sell something.
People want information. Lots of it. Pictures and videos. Downloadable PDF's and specifications. They could not care less about these dumb fucking trends that make websites impossible to use.
Sorry. There's just too much of this crap out there. If you understand sales you know this is precisely NOT what your website should be about. Your web developer is costing you sales.
Re: OpenTrons: Open Source Robotic Liquid Handling
#5Happy to talk to anyone about our robot! Currently have 51 machines in labs around the world doing things from serial dilutions to Gibson assembly and shipping more every week. Email info@opentrons.com to get in touch
Can these compete with something like the Hamilton Star? [0] 0. http://www.hamiltoncompany.com/products/automated-liquid-han...
No, we are not competing with Hamilton, Tecan, Cybio, or any of the other companies currently making big lab robots. i think of robots like the Hamilton Star as 'mainframe' machines. They are really great for centralized high-throughput, if you can afford one and have an automation engineer on the team.
The OT-One is aiming to be like a 'PC' rather than a 'mainframe' -- affordable, easy to use, and at a scale manageable by individuals. And with Mix.Bio you can download protocols to run, or design them in your browser. It is a lab robot for day-to-day use replacing manual pipetting.
Re: OpenTrons: Open Source Robotic Liquid Handling
#6Happy to talk to anyone about our robot! Currently have 51 machines in labs around the world doing things from serial dilutions to Gibson assembly and shipping more every week. Email info@opentrons.com to get in touch
Fix your website. It is unusable on an iPad. Information quality trumps hipster trendy UI crap any day of the week. This is particularly true if you are actually trying to sell something. People want information. Lots of it. Pictures and videos. Downloadable PDF's and specifications. They could not care less about these dumb fucking trends that make websites impossible to use. Sorry. There's just too much of this cra…
appreciate the input -- what elements are not working on your iPad?
Re: OpenTrons: Open Source Robotic Liquid Handling
#7Happy to talk to anyone about our robot! Currently have 51 machines in labs around the world doing things from serial dilutions to Gibson assembly and shipping more every week. Email info@opentrons.com to get in touch
Fix your website. It is unusable on an iPad. Information quality trumps hipster trendy UI crap any day of the week. This is particularly true if you are actually trying to sell something. People want information. Lots of it. Pictures and videos. Downloadable PDF's and specifications. They could not care less about these dumb fucking trends that make websites impossible to use. Sorry. There's just too much of this cra…
Out of curiosity, how's it broken on the ipad? It renders fine on my phone.
Re: OpenTrons: Open Source Robotic Liquid Handling
#8Happy to talk to anyone about our robot! Currently have 51 machines in labs around the world doing things from serial dilutions to Gibson assembly and shipping more every week. Email info@opentrons.com to get in touch
Fix your website. It is unusable on an iPad. Information quality trumps hipster trendy UI crap any day of the week. This is particularly true if you are actually trying to sell something. People want information. Lots of it. Pictures and videos. Downloadable PDF's and specifications. They could not care less about these dumb fucking trends that make websites impossible to use. Sorry. There's just too much of this cra…
It is also almost unusable on chrome/windows. 3d-view just freezes entire browser for 10-15 seconds.
Re: OpenTrons: Open Source Robotic Liquid Handling
#9Happy to talk to anyone about our robot! Currently have 51 machines in labs around the world doing things from serial dilutions to Gibson assembly and shipping more every week. Email info@opentrons.com to get in touch
Fix your website. It is unusable on an iPad. Information quality trumps hipster trendy UI crap any day of the week. This is particularly true if you are actually trying to sell something. People want information. Lots of it. Pictures and videos. Downloadable PDF's and specifications. They could not care less about these dumb fucking trends that make websites impossible to use. Sorry. There's just too much of this cra…
From the HN guidelines
"Be civil. Don't say things you wouldn't say in a face-to-face conversation. Avoid gratuitous negativity."
What I mean to say is your comment about a UI that can be improved would have worked without the words 'crap' and 'dumb fucking'.
Re: OpenTrons: Open Source Robotic Liquid Handling
#10Happy to talk to anyone about our robot! Currently have 51 machines in labs around the world doing things from serial dilutions to Gibson assembly and shipping more every week. Email info@opentrons.com to get in touch
This is fun to see. I work in this space currently.
Seems to be a potential solution for small academic/independent labs w/o a budget for what you have labeled a "mainframe" system.
However, you can purchase an old simple tecan/hamilton/beckman for under $2K that has more flexibility then this machine (e.g. ebay "beckman 2000" or "Tecan Genesis 200").
The open source software certainly provides good flexibility for the "hacker" types. But a script step on those other platforms provides the same abilities.
Just giving my thoughts. Curious to hear more.