Transflooder

"Transflooder" concept. "Flooderboard" in analogy to "Motherboard".

The idea here is sort of a microfluidic analog to a general purpose electronic computer. Easily re-programmable to do vastly different tasks.

There are several levels here.
Ordered in terms of system throughput:

• Red: Chip integrated mirofluidics … this needs a dedicated chip fab facility
• Orange: (DLP resin) 3D printed integrated mirofluidics (hardcoded dense microfluidic functionality in 3D but produceable locally)
• Yellow: (DLP resin) 3D printed composable "LEGO" (small cubes with ports and certain functions)
• Green: Pipetting (and on chip electrostatic droplet manipulation)
• Blue: (FFF/SLS) 3D printed (or conventionally machined) high througput fluidics

Delineation

There is the concept of a "chemputer" advertised by Leroy Cronin.

• attacking the reproducability crisis in chemistry
• partly motivated by researching the origin of life
• focus on more broad and general chemistry
• focus on a bit bigger quantities
• (wiki-TODO: Check these assumptions more thoroughly.)

This here is likely a bit different with a specific focus on:

• foldamers for nanosystems as quite narrow subspace of chemistry (rather than more general chemistry)
• very low quantities mostly for research and analysis (in the context of a mixed path extremely low product quantities might be sufficient)
• mostly motivated by helping along
  incremental path - bootstrapping - pathways

Related

• Microfluidics
• Automated research