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OUR COMPANY

Name: Israel Ortiz
Name: Dominique Stewart
Name: Larrison Black
Name: Zach Sledge
Name: Shreya Ramkumar
Name: Anyssa Iwamoto


LAB 6 WRITE-UP

Bayesian Statistics

Overview of the Original Diagnosis System


What Bayes Statistics Imply about This Diagnostic Approach


Computer-Aided Design

TinkerCAD


Our Design





Feature 1: Consumables Kit

To improve on the pipette and the disposable tips the process of having a cartridge system inside the pipette to reduce on contamination of the specimen or specimens and on the process of preparation.

Feature 2: Hardware - PCR Machine & Fluorimeter

'PCR machine

Fluorimeter'

Using the fluorimeter was a complicated process with the many different variables that could affect the results. One of the weaknesses of gathering data from the fluorimeter, was configuring the distance between the phone deck and the place of the actual fluorimeter device. During the entire experimentation, when moving the black box to block out the light and the different trials with moving the glass plate around, the distance between the camera and the fluorimeter kept shifting. Team four therefore had to re-measure the distance between these two objects constantly wasting precious time trying to get consistent data. Another weakness that was noticed during the experimentation was the problem of fitting the phone into the phone stand to take the picture. Due to the latest phone updates as larger tablet-size phones are becoming the norm, the new phones fall out of the phone stands. Luckily team four’s group had a couple of older iPhones which could work in place of the latest iPhone6s which would fall down if placed onto the phone stand. In order to fix these problems, team four decided to attach an adjustable phone deck onto the fluorimeter. The phone holder can be adjusted to snugly fit different kinds of phones onto it by adjusting the width, height, and thickness of the holder which can be tightened to hold the phone in place. This phone holder will on the base will be connected to the base of the fluorimeter. In the space between a ruler measurement will be inscribed onto the machine. The phone holder will then be able to slide on the ruler base towards the fluorimeter or away and adjusted to the appropriate distance in order to take a picture.