An open-source, DIY, automated controlled lab reactor (CLR)
The MicroLab is an open-source, DIY, automated controlled lab reactor (CLR) that people can assemble with parts available online. The creators hope this will do for chemistry what the 3D printer did for manufacturing: provide a DIY, hackable, low-cost method to design and produce certain needful things that otherwise would be out of reach.
For the MicroLab to be accessible to the most people, it was developed as part of a hardware/software stack called the MicroLab Suite. The different software programs help take the information about a compound you want to make and translate it into a recipe (code) that the MicroLab runs to create the compound.
You can find an introduction to the project, what the heck is a CLR, what’s in the MicroLab Suite, and why we are doing this at all on the About the MicroLab and MicroLab Suite page.
It’s under a GNU Affero General Public License v3.0. See more on GitHub.
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