Hydrogel Patterns in Microfluidic Devices by Do-It-Yourself UV-Photolithography Suitable for Very Large-Scale Integration

The Design of Large-Scale, Do-It-Yourself RAIDs

In this paper we explore the design of “Do-It-Yourself” RAIDs: RAID systems that can assembled by the end user from commercially available disks, enclosures, cables, racks, computers, and networks. We quantitatively evaluate the tradeoffs in cost, performance, and reliability of these DIY-RAID systems. Our principal result is an architecture that scales from 10s to 1000s of disks; we demonstrat...

Microfluidic large-scale integration.

We developed high-density microfluidic chips that contain plumbing networks with thousands of micromechanical valves and hundreds of individually addressable chambers. These fluidic devices are analogous to electronic integrated circuits fabricated using large-scale integration. A key component of these networks is the fluidic multiplexor, which is a combinatorial array of binary valve patterns...

JASs Do it yourself

JASs Do it yourself

This paper provides detailed description of a non-destructive, low-cost, and low-time consuming technique for producing high-resolution casts for the observation of taphonomic modifications on bone surfaces. The aim of the whole process is to obtain molds that accurately replicate the original bone surface at both the macroand microscopic levels. The high quality transparent epoxy casts produce...

do it yourself

It can take ages to meet the right partner. So much so that plants lost their patience millions of years ago and thought up something else: the art of selfing. Many flowering plants are indeed capable of extensive in-breeding – by way of a rather subtle form of hermaphroditism – to ensure their spread and survival. The common mouse-ear cress, Arabidopsis thaliana, which has become the model pla...