With our needs/problem statement revised and having had a session on sketching, the group came together to present some candidate sketches to accomplish these goals. Here are some of Grace’s sketches/schematics

Understanding the mechanisms, specifically coding and engineering, behind Arduino.

We learned about the wonderful world of Arduino as a potential tool to facilitate our modeling process. Arduino can be interfaced with a computer and bioreactor to control output (e.g. motor) and receive input (e.g. response data). Edwin at City College taught us the basics and gave us tools to further our understanding.

In addition to this website blog, we decided on Freedcamp as a management tool to facilitate communication as well as share to-do lists, ideas, design documents and such.

With the Makers Project delineated and possible mechanisms in mind, the group started toying around with the idea of shear strain and stress as a way to upgrade and/or further explore the details of in vitro cardiac tissue engineering.

Needs finding