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GCODe Pro
What is it?
The Mini’s bigger sibling, the GCODe Pro was designed to overcome most of the limitations of the Mini. The Mini is an awesome device in its own right, but it lacks the capability to handle the larger volumes of culture or dilute the sample to a required dilution. This limits the range of application of the Mini. The Pro has the capability to draw only a required volume of sample, dilute it to the required concentration, and measure its Optical Density. What’s more, It doesn’t sit inside the shaker like the Mini and so doesn’t have to be warmed up. The culture can be kept in a standard conical flask inside the shaker, with only a tube going into the flask. To keep this tube sterile, we also designed an ethanol flushing system.
The Pro is an ambitious project since it aims to do what the best automated growth curve machines do and more, for a fraction of the price [$250 USD]. The project is still in the beta testing stage, and we have put up all the resources required to develop the project to the current stage, so that anyone can build and contribute.
What can it do?
The GCODe Pro has all the functionality of the Mini, like automatic OD measurements, real-time growth curve plotting, and pushbullet alerts. Apart from this, the Pro can:
- Dilute the sample to required dilution
- Add reagents to the sample before OD measurement
- Maintain sterility by an ethanol-flushing mechanism
- Turn the shaker ON/OFF
The Pro consists of 5 different units, represented in the flowchart below:
