Abstract
Standard mechanical components, such as adapters or mounts, are ubiquitous in research laboratories, C. elegans labs included. Recently, in-house prototyping and fabricating both standard and custom mechanical parts has become simple and cost effective. Here we describe the basic steps, equipment, and considerations required for rapid prototyping of a handful of simple yet useful designs. These examples were chosen for their simplicity, as well as for demonstrating specific practicalities. They are thus appropriate as training exercises.
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This work was supported by the NSF IOS grant no. 1256989. We thank E. Efrati for useful discussions.
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Lynch, D., Biron, D. (2015). A Primer on Prototyping. In: Biron, D., Haspel, G. (eds) C. elegans. Methods in Molecular Biology, vol 1327. Humana Press, Totowa, NJ. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-2842-2_17
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