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The field of micro- and nanosystems in life sciences is inherently highly interdisciplinary. In both academic research and industrial R&D the people involved need to be able to communicate and work with a large number of collaborators from different fields and backgrounds, know about the possible applications in the pharmaceutical industries, medicine and patient care and take responsibility of the societal implication of their work. Successful products and research findings can only be achieved when this transdisciplinary collaboration is learned and taught on-the-job and at all levels Read the story »
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Team Turbo - Battleship
The Team Turbo is a group of students of Life Sciences at the University of Applied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland.
Our goal in this project was to create a game based on microfluidics.
To gather ideas, our Team did brainstorming and we came up with the following proposals:
Colour by numbers
Labyrinth
Memory
Battleship
For more detailed informations to each idea click here. [...]
Read the story »Team Monkey - "Hangman" and "Get Three Inverse"
Team Monkey
The goal of this project was building a microfluidic game. For further information about the project pleas use this link http://wetpong.net/wetpong/?page_id=2
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We had several ideas for different games, however, we decided to develop 2 games. (http://wetpong.net/wetpong/wiki/index.php?title=Erste_Woche).
That’s maybe the largest difference to the other teams, because they developed just one game.
The two games [...]
Labyrinx - Team Guinness
We, students of the School of Life Sciences, who are currently attending a course in medicinal micro system technics received the task to develop a game using micro fluidic technology.
After collecting a few different ideas for such a game we soon narrowed down to a micro fluidic labyrinth. Goal is to maneuver either a [...]
FLUXBALL
FLUXBALL the inovative Fluid-Soccer game
Finally we succeeded in create a new game called FLUXBALL! The Field is about 6 x 12 cm and is completely filled with water. The "ball" is a small slice from plastic, called puck. To induce the pressure and the flows, we used pipettes also filled with Water. The whole System [...]
Read the story »Biosnake
Due to the fact, that all other groups made similar things, we decided to create a new idea. Our new concept is BIOSNAKE. Everybody knows it from the earliest Nokia cell phone generation the famous game SNAKE. We are sure, that also you have already played SNAKE at least once. For combining the topics Microsystems [...]
Read the story »Fail...
Well, well. Our first experiment with the labyrinth didn't quite work out as we thought. First of all the ball was rolling around without us pressing any liquid into the labyrinth.
When we actually did use the two injection needles nothing happened... The ball is just to heavy for this type of game.
The other thing was [...]
Brainstorming
- Paint by numer, ispired by Keith Haring
- Labyrinth
- Memory
- Battleship
Victory!!
The other day we managed to create our first labyrinth with rapid prototyping. You can see the result on the photo below. You can also see the little ball we will be using for our experiment. Its the tip of a ball-pen!
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