Team:Sheffield/Contribution


Our whole philosophy is to promote the open-source hardware movement and that’s why we compiled a set of instructions for any user, irrespective of their technical knowledge background, to be able to build OPENLUX from scratch.

HARDWARE

To be able to legally regard our work as open source, we went through the Creative Commons route to license our CAD and DXF files through Thingiverse. We have provided both sets of files for one to be able to decide whether they want to 3D print or laser cut their parts, the two ways we recommend OPENLUX to be built. However, this is not the only way to build OPENLUX.

Below is the Zip file to our CAD and DXF files but these can also be found on our Thingiverse project page.

[Zip file]: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:3920212

Individual Parts

(All will download the specific part after the link is clicked on. Files in the folder, DXF Files Files)

Building Instructions

You can build different parts of OPENLUX using a saw, wood, PVA glue, a pencil and a ruler without the need for highly-specialised machinery. Here are the build instructions to build OPENLUX.

What you will need:

  • All the cut parts
  • These parts were connected with PVA glue
  • Screwdriver
  • M4 machine screws
  • M4 nuts
  • M5 machine screws
  • M5 nuts
  • 2 x GT2 timing belt
  • 4 x 5mm Bore Belt Pulley wheels
  • 4 x 5mm Bore Idlers
  • 2 x 200mm Steel Rods
  • 8 x SK8 brackets
  • 2 x bearing
Building Instructions

SOFTWARE

We wanted anyone to be able to pick up where we left off with our software. We uploaded our code to GitHub, the internet’s biggest software-building website; most of which are open-source. We think this would be the perfect platform to share our code for the project under the GPLv3 license. It can easily be accessed by anyone and adjusted by highly experienced programmers to be more efficient, functional and adaptable. We also made an operating manual to make it easier for the user to use OPENLUX.

Here is the current version of our code on GitHub with any future updates. https://github.com/Sheffield-iGEM/OPENLUX

Operating Manual

AFTER OPENLUX

We developed our idea from 2017’s Sheffield iGEM team and hope that someone else, an iGEM team or otherwise, may pick up from where we left off. To whoever may pick this project up here are a few things we thought that could be improvements that could be a starting point for your project.

  • Developing our filter wheel idea
  • Testing further wavelengths
  • Heating
  • Shaking