Kevin has taken the preliminary sketches that were made in Google Sketchup and translated them into SolidWorks. The base/actuator arm/dish arms complex was focused on to simulate the movement that will occur in the prototype.

Here is an example of the prototype’s arm movement:

Parts: Actuator arm (blue); dish arms (connected from actuator arm to petri dish); motor (circle in top right)

Here, the motor will push the actuator arm back and fort, which will move the dish arms up away from the static arms. This will ideally cause a shear strain on the cardiac tissue which is located between the dish arm and the static arms on each petri plate.