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Requesting help for a fish egg incubation engine
Hello, I am a postdoc managing an aquaculture research laboratory. I will be conducting an experiment to determine optimum water quality conditions for fish egg incubation. I would like to build a mobile (structure that is suspended so as to move freely in the air) that utilizes one or two actuators to slowly lift and quickly drop (~2 inches) egg incubators, so eggs are gently and constantly agitated. We usually agitate eggs with flow, but the flows I require for other aspects of the experimental setup are too strong. I have 6 treatments, and 3 replicates of ~5ml of eggs/treatment. I will be incubating each replicate in a 2-inch PVC coupler with mesh screen covering the top and bottom. All replicates for each treatment will be incubated in a respective shared 4-liter tank. The plan is to adhere each replicate from all treatments to a monofilament line that is then fixed to a single arm, a mobile. The arm will be lifted and dropped each minute to gently and simultaneously agitate all replicates in all treatments. I am seeking advice on what kind of actuator/s and controller to purchase. The mobile wont be more than 20lbs. I also would like some direction for youtube videos, forums, or walkthroughs that will teach me how to program the controller and hook it up to the actuator/s. I have never performed any sort of programing for robotics, however I have learned how to utilize Rstudio and am quite handy otherwise, I can solder, replace breakers, and wire up an outlet. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Please suggest a different subreddit if my post is not welcome here. Thank you, Ssssttttiiinnnggg submitted by /u/ssssttttiiinnnggg [link] [comments]
Hello,
I am a postdoc managing an aquaculture research laboratory. I will be conducting an experiment to determine optimum water quality conditions for fish egg incubation. I would like to build a mobile (structure that is suspended so as to move freely in the air) that utilizes one or two actuators to slowly lift and quickly drop (~2 inches) egg incubators, so eggs are gently and constantly agitated. We usually agitate eggs with flow, but the flows I require for other aspects of the experimental setup are too strong.
I have 6 treatments, and 3 replicates of ~5ml of eggs/treatment. I will be incubating each replicate in a 2-inch PVC coupler with mesh screen covering the top and bottom. All replicates for each treatment will be incubated in a respective shared 4-liter tank. The plan is to adhere each replicate from all treatments to a monofilament line that is then fixed to a single arm, a mobile. The arm will be lifted and dropped each minute to gently and simultaneously agitate all replicates in all treatments.
I am seeking advice on what kind of actuator/s and controller to purchase. The mobile wont be more than 20lbs. I also would like some direction for youtube videos, forums, or walkthroughs that will teach me how to program the controller and hook it up to the actuator/s. I have never performed any sort of programing for robotics, however I have learned how to utilize Rstudio and am quite handy otherwise, I can solder, replace breakers, and wire up an outlet.
Any help would be greatly appreciated. Please suggest a different subreddit if my post is not welcome here.
Thank you,
Ssssttttiiinnnggg
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