This project aims to improve the current state of cardiac tissue tracking systems. Human engineered cardiac tissues have become incredibly advanced tools for modeling the human myocardium, however, tracking systems to analyze these tissues lag behind. By improving upon the currently available systems to allow for simultaneous multi-tissue tracking from within an incubator this project will be able to reduce tissue expose to movement, air temperature and composition fluctuations, and unsterile environments.

The Name:

I dubbed this project Rianú which aptly means tracking in Irish.

The Recording:

[in progress]

The Tracking:

[in progress]

The Analysis:

[in progress]

This was a project carried out as part of the engineering coursework at Trinity College Dublin. We were tasked with designing a medical device using 3D printing technologies. The device we chose to design was a stent crimper that could be easily used on a lab bench or in the cath lab.

Open Source:

A core philosophy was that this venture was a social enterprise not a business. We wanted to make a reliable crimping method available to all those who need it. In support of this goal we have decided to release all files open source under the GNU GPLv3 license.

3D Printable:

In further support of making this as accessible as possible we designed the crimper so that it was fully 3D printable, if you can get access to a 3D printer then you can reliably crimp stents.

Universal Design Centered:

The design of this project was heavily focused around the 7 core principles of universal design. A Universal Design approach helps to ensure the final product is designed with all users in mind.

I have made website for various reasons– a friend’s band, a bio design class, an art student’s portfolio, and of course this one. A full list of these can be found below.

For sites that need to be editable without any programming knowledge I use Hugo for design and deploy to netlify CMS for easy editing. I also have experience with Bootstrap Studio and most of these sites rely heavily on bootstrap, although I am experimenting with other frameworks such as tailwindCSS.

This website has been created from scratch using Hugo as a static site generator. The source code is available on gitlab and the custom theme sourgough-starter is available for use under the MIT license.

Decentralized Web:

I have been getting more interested in the decentralized internet. As a result this website is deployed to the ipfs and accessible via the following decentralized domains if you know how to use them.

Handshake: flrn/
Zilliqa: jackmurphy.zil

Sites:

DU Classical Society: site repo
Blueberry Rouge Band: site repo
Stent Crimper Design Project: site repo
Art Student Portfolio: site
Multi-Tissue Tracking System Docs: site
Classical Student Portfolio: in progress