This is the actively developed fork of the original microdrop-3 software package. For customers who purchased a DropBot from Sci-Bots, please see the original project (https://github.com/sci-bots/microdrop-3) as compatibilty is not a guarantee.
Ferrobot: You can build a Digital Microfluidic Platform at home for under $50! See: https://github.com/The-Brainery/FerroBot
This software also supports the DropBot platform by Sci-Bots, via the original project: (https://github.com/sci-bots/microdrop-3).
Support for the OpenDrop will also be coming in the near future! See: http://www.gaudi.ch/OpenDrop/
- git
- node / npm
git clone --recursive https://github.com/The-Brainery/SciCAD
cd SciCAD
npm i --global yarn electron @yac/yac npm-check-updates lerna
yarn upgrade:micropede
yarn upgrade:yac
lerna bootstrap
yarn build # This can sometimes appear to hang on windows when it has actually complected. Press <Enter> and/or Ctrl+C if it appears to have stalled for over 30s or so
yarn start- git
- node / npm
npm install --global @scicad/application >> scicadcd SciCAD
cd packages/builder
yarn builderThis software was originally funded via contract work from Sci-Bots ran by: Ryan Fobel, and Christian Fobel (https://sci-bots.com/). With the focus being to develop a new software platform for their open source hardware project: DropBot (http://microfluidics.utoronto.ca/dropbot/), with the software titled: Microdrop-3.
Unfortunately, Sci-Bots no longer has the resources to maintain the project, and so I'll shifting development to my new organization, The Brainery. For this reason, support for the Sci-Bots' DropBot platform might become depricated in the future. To ensure compatibility for Sci-Bots' DropBot customers, I have forked and renamed the project to avoid confusion. For a guaranteed DropBot compatible version, please use the original fork: https://github.com/sci-bots/microdrop-3.
Ryan and Christian funded my developments of this project for almost a year, and in thanks, I have decided to rename the software "SciCAD" as homage to Sci-Bots.
Original developments of what later would become SciCAD arose from my fourth year project: DropLab. The team included myself along with: Abdullah Abbas, Josh Reid, and Kamyar Ghofrani. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8F3uWKRhpo)
This project was also awarded the Autodesk Canada Capstone Design Award (https://uwaterloo.ca/capstone-design/autodesk-canada-capstone-design-award) in 2017.