February 5 - February 12

This week, the Power Puff Girls worked on the recircultion device. After developing a new design for this portion of the project, the girls worked to complete building. During the week, parts were made using Solidworks and AutoCAD. The parts will be used in the apparatus to cause a tilting that will cause the blood in a bag to move and mix the blood in order to increase the binding probability of the nanoparticles and tumor cells. The devices can be seen in figures 1 and 2.

Figure 1: Solidworks drawings of the pulley used for the recirculation device.

 Figure 2: An AutoCAD drawing of the plate used in the recirculation device.

During the week, the girls spent time in the shop to build the container for the whole project and the attachments for the printed parts and the box. There was some delay in the process as one of the tools needed for processing was loaned out earlier in the week. The tool should be back in the shop on Monday February 12, and another blog will be posted on Friday February 16, showing what was built and accomplished through the week.

Aside from the building, an Arduino code was written that causes the two servo motors to rotate alternatively. This will generate the motion of the recirculation device that aids in the binding.