After Kieran Michelangelo-ed our somewhat vague sketches into this beautiful piece of artwork (I hear the Louvre is currently trying to outbid the MET):

the next step was to try and replicate some of these parts in SolidWorks- starting with the Plunger piece that will serve to provide compression to each of the gels in 96 wells. After some necessary head-banging and a few cups of coffee, we were finally able to finish the design of our initial plunger piece.

Will it work? Will it not work? Are we going to be heading to the World Series? Stay tuned…