Week 3 HW: Lab Automation

  1. Python Script for Opentrons Artwork

For my Opentrons artwork, I went through several designs I found interesting.

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Instead of drawing the art from scratch, I decided to add the images I wanted as templates for the artwork. The first is a photorealistic picture of a cat, but due to it being too detailed and the Opentrons pixel/well limitations, I wasn’t able to recreate it. The same happened when I inserted a picture of Vincent van Gogh’s painting, Starry Night. In the first few tries, I failed to account for the pixel/well limitations for the Opentron art. Because of this, I decided to pick a simpler design for my final image in the form of a Costco logo. I chose this particular design because I liked Costco’s business model and products from watching reviews of Costco products, and I would love for the company to open a branch store here in Indonesia.

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I managed to recreate the logo, for the most part. I’m unable to write Wholesale perfectly under Costco due to the complexity of the alphabet used for the word, such as the alphabet E.

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After this, I copied the coordinates for the Python script.

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Due to my inexperience in programming, opted to use AI to create the code for me. I used ChatGPT to program the code based on the coordinates and inserted that line of code into the prepared script according to the instructions in Collab.

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