Team:BostonU HW/Notebook/June

Timeline: June

Week 3: May 30th - June 5th

Created templates to display an svg file

Added functionality to the display by dynamically creating buttons to open and close valves depending on the svg file

Incorporated Ajax to connect to the serial port to connect to an arduino

Used Ajax and post requests to import files from the web-app and save them locally to use for the settings page and the svg image

Ordered parts for the pumps setup

Changed mapper code to differentiate flow from control on an LFR file

Added functionality to mapper to work with the UCF and identify which layer all elements reside in

Implemented control layer in mapper

Weeks 4 and 5: June 6th - June 19th

Learnt js, css, html, node.js, express framework, and how to set up effective github repositories

Did some reading about microfluidics:

"Microfluidics for synthetic biology: from design to execution," Ferry MS, Razinkov IA, Hasty J.

Framework switched from Webix based implementation to a more standard implementation w/ hybrid of Javascript, CSS, html

Assembled the demo board with pump holders and servo holders

Wrote an Arduino code that gets the code as an input, and turns on the servo

Implemented the display of the SVG graph with buttons to open and close valves

Added file upload functionality to certain pages

Enabled serial communication of valves from the fluigi page to the Arduino

Mapper changed to completely align with place and route with corrected formatting issues and MINT output

Started to integrate mapper into the graphical user interface