Radhakrishna Sanka: FluigiCAD - Building open source CAD tools to make microfluidics more accessible
Channel: The Open Source Hardware Association
Date: 23/04/2022

A presentation from the 2022 Open Hardware Summit.

The talk will go over the challenges faced and strides made by the CIDAR Lab at Boston University and talk about how building domain-specific CAD tools are necessary for advancing DIY movements in emerging fields like synthetic biology. The talk will, in particular, discuss the CAD software ecosystem FluigiCAD and shows how we leverage the low-cost fabrication techniques developed within the lab to bridge some of the most commonly faced problems in developing microfluidics hardware in both industry and academia. We will also propose potential directions the open hardware community can take to build the capacity for future open science and DIY bio applications.