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Monday
Still no luck on the primers front. Now it looks like we might have to wait a couple of days before they can even be sure we're not bioterrorists. Unfortunately that puts quite a crimp in our experimental plans, since every experiment for the next few weeks requires PCR and, therefore, primers. We will just have to find something else to do in the mean time.
We can still design the things though, so that's what we did. After last weeks debarcle, we're designing them in groups of two to prevent mishaps. Not hugely efficient, but if it stops us from having to waste three days on useless PCR, it's well worth doing.
The template for the wiki was finalized and put up, after considerable pain on Emmy's part. Now every page looks as shiney as our home page.
And we finally have a name- B. SUBTILIGHTS!
Tuesday
It was a beautiful day in Cambridge today (and indeed across the whole United Kingdom, thanks to the Jet Stream slumping Northwards), so we took our work outside. This may have affected our productivity a little, but I think that given our present capabilities, a bit of a break may be a good thing.
Alas, another day of wiki and administration. Potential sponsors were contacted, pages were updated, pictures were drawn, and we did everything we could that wasn't actual biology. This primer dearth is really limiting our ability to do anything useful, extremely frustrating...
We did, however, manage to order some primers, so those should arrive in around two days (assuming GCHQ don't apprehend the package).
Oh, and more work on the Arduino. Apparently we're going to try and make it work with Android.
Wednesday
Thursday
The hardware implementation has progressed significantly this morning. Andreas has put most of parts together as well as paying some attention to the aesthetics of it. Photos can be seen in Lab book. Now, we are just waiting for a mechanical shaft coupler from the Instrument Shop of the Engineering Department, our design of course. With the coupler our device will be driven automatically by a motor connected to our Arduino. The software needs to be completed as well. There is the thought of using the Amarino application that is open-source together with a bluetooth adaptor so that the measurements of our device are received wirelessly at an Android phone. It's cool, isn't it?
Friday
