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Notebook

  • February 29:
    • Application for iGEM is sent
    • A team of four master students is assembled under guidance of PI Wim
  • March 03: Brainstorming for subjects starts
  • March 24: PI's Marjan and Yves join the team
  • April 22: Three subjects are chosen, and a presentation is prepared

May

  • May 03: Our iGEM application is officially accepted
  • May 04: Presentation on possible subjects for PI Wim
  • May 06: Six PhD students and one advisor join our team
  • May 17: First meeting
  • May 31: We have our subject!
    • The work gets divided into four work packages, and team members are assigned
  • June 15: Fablab is contacted to be a partner for 3D printing our collector, they accepted
  • June 29: Abstract is written and added to site
  • July 07:
    • Our Facebook and Twitter page are live
    • A first draft of a 'sponsor letter' is made
  • July 18: Our stay in America has been booked
  • July 19: Work package 'shape' decides to use Autodesk Fusion 360 to shape the water collector
  • July 22: Prof Dan Fernandez (CSUMB), who makes fog catchers, is interested to work with us
  • August 01: First 3D model of water collector prototype: dome with a gutter to collect the water. Printed the first prototype.
    ShapeV1
    ShapeV1Print
  • August 04: New water collector shape with holes to distribute the water.
    ShapeV2
  • August 15: The info video is made and put on the website
  • August 22: A brainstorm on how to stack the collectors (not geometrically feasible :( ).
    ShapeV2
  • August 30: Our first batch of PLA is delivered. Brainstorming on a new stackable water collector. Only holes on the bottom and top with a cavity under the dome.
  • September 01:
    • The first batch of biotin is delivered: the work on the filament can begin!
      Biotin

    • Steven, our advisor, met up with the EPFL team in Lausanne, Switserland. They immediately bonded
      Steven with the Lausanne team
  • September 06: The first batch of our filament is made.
  • September 07: We collaborated with the iGEM Virginia team by filling in their survey
  • September 13:
    • We all got to know the EPFL team better, as they conducted a Skype interview with us
      Skype interview Lausanne
    • Dewpal has been chosen as name
    • New version of the water collector designed: stackable and internal water distribution.
  • September 14:
    • We printed three different prototypes of our water collector
  • September 15: Our crowdfunding page is live!
  • September 18: We made a temperature and humidity sensor with a Raspberry Pi so we can observe the environment while testing our 3D shape
    Skype interview Lausanne
  • September 20: The water collector without biotin was tested for its water collecting efficiency
  • September 21: We met with Winnie from ReaGent
  • September 23:
    • We met with Deepak from 3dee, who gave us some amazing advice on how to enhance our 3D shape
    • Our filament group went to Timelab to make a batch of filament
      Making filament at Timelab
  • September 24: We made an experimental set up with a humidifier and our temperature and humidity sensor (cf. 15/09) to test the water collection of our shape
    Humidifier set up
  • September 26: We tried our INP: it works!
  • September 29: A logo has been designed. Shape design now includes a screw cap to fit on a plastic bottle.
  • October 01: Developed a new 3D design, with an active surface area that is almost 20 times larger than the previous (third) version
    Water collector version 4
  • October 02: New 3D design made by weaving ribbons (let the inner artist go!).
    Water collector version 4
  • October 07: 3Ders did a press article on our project
  • October 09: We started coating the water collector with biotin. Solvent with PLA and biotin is poured over the water collector and left to dry under the laminar air cabinet.
    Binding biotin with out water collectors
    Water collector version 4
  • October 26: We're off to America!