This week all members of TrollLABS met and got aquainted. Contact information was shared.

This week we had the TrollLABS Pecha Kucha along with pizza. Before that we cleaned and fixed stuff in TrollLABS that needed cleaning and fixing. 

Monday 11/09.2023

After many weeks we have finally gotten the basics up and running.

• Three end-stops are attached; one per axis.
• Lightburn software is downloaded on 1 of 2 Laptops
• GRBL is calibrated and oriented

Our next step will be including the lowering and raising of the z-axis in the run-cycles. 

Friday 15/09.2023

Monday 18/09.23

Today we worked out a way for the drill to start spinning before lowering itself onto the slice.

The solution was to include a tiny circle on the edge of the workboard. We will see how this solution holds as the project develops.

We also had a meeting with arts about the project and the plans going forward. 

Friday 22/09.23

Scrum with whole lab

Reached the conclusion that we need to measure how much force is needed to hold down the slices.

We have decided to test out a vacuum method because we find it the most flexible solution. 

It will not make drilling the sides of the slice a cross-contamination hazard, as many of the other solutions do.

We will use Monday to prototype and test this idea.

Monday 25/09.23

Today we started developing the first vacuum gripper prototype.

We tested it both at TrollLabs and down at MR-lab

At the end of the day we had a meeting with the people responsible for the hyperspectral imaging part of the project

Friday 29/09.23