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February 29:
- Application for iGEM is sent
- A team of four master students is assembled under guidance of PI Wim

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.
August 04: New water collector shape with holes to distribute the water.
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 :( ).
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!
- Steven, our advisor, met up with the EPFL team in Lausanne, Switserland. They immediately bonded
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
- 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
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
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
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
October 02: New 3D design made by weaving ribbons (let the inner artist go!).
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.
October 26: We're off to America!

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