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# Hello World

- Open source is hard: the path to moving away from it is a slow drift.
    - NGOs may be better than traditional investments.

# Misc

Robot project list:

- https://gitlab.com/pipettin-bot/pipettin-bot/-/issues/63

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bioelectrochemical_reactor

https://www.bioartbot.org/

https://docs.auto-pi-lot.com/en/latest/guide/overview.html

# Future

## Nico: there's all this people... what can we do together?

Tim: you can't get broad usage if you only build the platform.

Tim: Jubilee is a good example, they have institutional backing and community. PLR has Hamilton and "pharma" behind them.

Tim: Projects should show a demostration use case. Why is this useful? To who?

Nico: **What about coordination?** (between PLR, Jubilee, Fran, etc.).

Tim: Its possible, perhaps the grop will get too big, and the use case will be too small.

### Fran: Automated replication of libraries

Fran: Autoamte reClone stuff!

Tim: it is hard to do with the opentrons. Doing it by hand doesn't take too much time.

Time: The Toyota production system (book) defines "autonomation". Robots should stop to let a human handle unexpected things (e.g. errors).

## Talk at OAC

Tim: Start with a short talk about the project. Have a second talk targeting interesting people.

Tim: Ask "what do you imagine the future looks like?".

Tim: OT might be interested in making the robot connect to other stuff. You should perhaps be careful, they might make your life harder.

- Take the feature and market it really hard, without keeping interoperability.
- Vendrian a romper reuniones?

## Orchestration

Orchestration of devices: https://docs.auto-pi-lot.com/en/latest/

Tim: in his orchestration system (which uses MQTT) there is a "supervisor" that sets up relationships between devices: "tell device A to expect a message from device B". Then the supervisor can walk away.
