OpenTrons: Open-Source Rapid Prototyping for Biology

A project in Brooklyn, NY by OpenTrons
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Accelerating research with open, affordable, & easy-to-use lab robots. We empower people to innovate with biotech.
Backers: 237
Average Pledge Per Backer: $535

Funded: $126,694 of $100,000
Dates: Oct 31st -> Nov 30th (31 days)
Project By: OpenTrons
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Latest News

We did it!!! Thank you!!!!!

November 26th - via: kickstarter.com
THANK YOU ALL!!Thank you, our backers, for taking us past our goal! We are now at $108,345. Couldnt be more excited to get to work with all of you! Yaay!  Thank you.  Will, Chiu, and Nick  (Read More)

OpenTrons on Medium

November 25th - via: kickstarter.com
Medium RE:FORM did a great in-depth piece about OpenTrons. Excerpt:   (Read More)

Three quarters to our goal!!

November 23rd - via: kickstarter.com
We are three quarters to our goal!And climbing fast!   (Read More)

7 Days Left!

November 22nd - via: kickstarter.com
Only seven days left to get an OT.One in April. We will open our direct sales in Summer 2015. If you want to be an early adopter, get the $1000 off the retail price, and join our community + get our support, your time is running out to back us!  (Read More)

BACKER WARRANTY

November 20th - via: kickstarter.com
People have been asking why there isnt a separate reward level for a warranty, and thats because we thought it went without saying that we would be working with everyone who backs us to make their robots work.  Every reward level gets a warranty!... (Read More)

OpenTrons on Wired!

November 17th - via: kickstarter.com
Hi Backers! OpenTrons was featured on Wired today!  "This Robot Could Make Creating New Life Forms As Easy As Coding An App" We met the author, Marcus Wohlsen, at SynBioBeta last weekend, where he got to see the OT.One in action. Years ago he wrote... (Read More)

Exciting Times for Open Biotech!

November 17th - via: kickstarter.com
Hi Everyone! It is an exciting time for open-source biotech on Kickstarter! Our new friends at Chai Biotechnologies launched the Open qPCR project, which will clearly play a key role in open and independent biotech innovation going forward! We got... (Read More)

New Backer Level! Open-Source Documentation Early Access

November 11th - via: kickstarter.com
Hi Backers! Lots of you have asked us for early access to our technical documentation -- so we just launched a new backer level to give you just that!  We couldnt be more excited to bring lab automation into the open-source development community.... (Read More)

Halfway There!!

October 31st - via: kickstarter.com
Hi Everyone!! We are halfway there! Thanks for being our earliest backers and taking us this far. Now, on to the second half! More soon -- Will   (Read More)

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