Progress Report14

April 27, 2004

Project Title: “Cherry Picking Guide” for Small Molecule Screening

Team Members: Blake Hondl, Amit Mehta, Jon Millin,Ryan Pope

Client: Noël R. Peters

Advisor: Willis Tompkins

Date: 4/20/04 – 4/27/04

Problem Statement:

Develop adevice to guide a micropipette user in the transfer of small volumes of compounds between 384-well micro-titer plates. The device will increase the efficiency of transfers and reduce user error.

Restatement of Team Goals:

  1. Get user input and graphical display fully functional
  2. Determine correlation between well row and column and location within display window
  3. Handle all exceptions (errors) that may occur
  4. Finish coding that will allow the application to take user input
  5. Combine this input with existing code so that the Excel input will illuminate the appropriate well(s)
  6. Finish constructing container/setup of laptop prototype
  7. Allow access via keyboard
  8. Devise system of holding well plates fixed in place
  9. Test protective covering: polypropylene film/wrap

Summary of Team Accomplishments:

  1. Continued developing software
  2. Illumination display improved
  3. Rectangles drawn to serve as boundaries for well plates on screen
  4. Illumination lines extended to fill the length and width of boundary boxes
  5. Having trouble compiling application on Jon’s laptop, although the program compiles fine on desktop PC’s running the same version of CodeWarrior
  6. Unable to find an appropriate cable long enough allow the laptop screen to be placed flat
  7. Laptop prototype can be accessed using an external keyboard

Summary of Individual Accomplishments:

Blake Hondl (Team Leader)

  1. Researched Java classes
  2. Wrote programming code
  3. Created rectangular boundaries (box) for well plates on screen
  4. Extended illumination lines to reach across the width and length of box
  5. Worked on GUI to allow the user to enter a new well location
  6. Worked on presentation slides for final presentation poster
  7. Prototype programming
  8. Future work
  9. Wrote progress report

Ryan Pope (Communicator)

  1. Continued refining structure of laptop prototype
  2. Collected prototyping materials

Jon Millin (BWIG)

  1. Java programming
  2. Excel file input
  3. Updated website
  4. Work on presentation poster

Amit Mehta (BSAC)

  1. Updated design notebook
  2. Helped construct prototype container
  3. Tested polypropylene material

Statement of Team Goals:

  1. Get user input and graphical display fully functional
  2. Determine correlation between well row and column and location within display window
  3. Handle all exceptions (errors) that may occur
  4. Finish coding that will allow the application to take user input
  1. Combine this input with existing code so that the Excel input will illuminate the appropriate well(s)
  1. Finish constructing container/setup of laptop prototype
  1. Allow access via keyboard
  2. Devise system of holding well plates fixed in place
  1. Test protective covering: polypropylene film/wrap

Project Schedule:

4/27– 4/30Finish prototype and poster presentation, continue working on

paper

4/30Final poster presentations

4/30 – 5/7Final written report and final meeting with advisor

Difficulties:Need to develop a better understanding of how to output data through a serial port to the laptop loaned to the team by Jeff Schowalter. This may not be accomplished this semester, but may be tested in the subsequent one. Need to continue expanding our knowledge of the Java classes that will allow us to takeinput from a Microsoft Excel file.

Activities:

Blake Hondl:

1. Java programming– 6.5 hrs

2. Java research – 1.0 hr

3. Work on final presentation poster – 1.0 hr

3. Writing progress report – 2.0 hrs

Total – 10.5 hrs

Ryan Pope:

1. Prototype construction–2.25hrs

2. Researching Laptop LCD screen cables–1.5hrs

3. Updating design notebook–0.75 hr

4. Work on final presentation poster –1.0 hr

Total – 5.5 hrs

Jon Millin:

1. Java Programming– 4.5 hrs

2.Final presentation poster –0.5 hr

3. Updating project website –0.5 hr

4. Updating design notebook – 1.0 hr

Total – 6.5hrs

Amit Mehta:

1.Prototype construction– 2.0 hrs

2. Updating design notebook– 1.0 hr

3. Laptop screen cable research 1.0 hr

4. Polypropylene testing – 0.5 hrs

Total – 4.5 hrs

Team Total Hours for this week – 27.0 hrs

Cumulative Team Hours to date – 310.0hrs