Team Venus: Meeting 8 - we're getting there
Team Venus met again at the same time and same place as our other Monday meetings. This time we discussed details of our design and how it will work. Using everyone’s information, we drew out what we assumed to be the final design of our device. But, you know what they say…you should never assume. Of course after we asked Dr. Wasser some questions on Wednesday, we changed our design again. This design change was good, however, because it made the computer sensing station be the same shape and implanted in the membrane the same way as the nanotubes. This made our device simpler and more economical because now it won’t be a different structure and it won’t be floating in the synaptic cleft where it could be in the way.
Basically, our device will consist of a computer sensing station, nanowires, and nanotubes. The computer sensing station will be released first from the mother ship. It will have an acetylcholine attached to it, and it will be attracted to a working channel. The ACh will attach to the receptor and will release from the device. The computer sensing station will implant itself there in the membrane with one electrode inside the cell and another outside the cell. Then, the nanotubes that are attached to the computer sensing station through nanowires will be released from the mother ship. They will also implant themselves in the membrane near the computer sensing station. When the electrodes sense a change in potential they will open the gates on the nanotubes and let sodium in. When the membrane is finished depolarizing the gates will close.
In order to put the tubes and the computer sensing station through the membrane, they will be put in larger tubes with a mycelle covering the bottom half. The mycelle will bind to the membrane, bringing the two tubes in, but not through. Then the inner nanotube will be pushed through the inner side of the membrane so it can span the membrane. In order to power the device we are going to use flagella motors and to process the potential changes we will use a nanochip. Also, to keep the immune system from attacking the tubes, we are going to coat the tubes with a special membrane. We have figured out some of the details, but there are still more intricacies to work out. For next week, a few of us are going to work on making some drawings of our device on Inventor.
Basically, our device will consist of a computer sensing station, nanowires, and nanotubes. The computer sensing station will be released first from the mother ship. It will have an acetylcholine attached to it, and it will be attracted to a working channel. The ACh will attach to the receptor and will release from the device. The computer sensing station will implant itself there in the membrane with one electrode inside the cell and another outside the cell. Then, the nanotubes that are attached to the computer sensing station through nanowires will be released from the mother ship. They will also implant themselves in the membrane near the computer sensing station. When the electrodes sense a change in potential they will open the gates on the nanotubes and let sodium in. When the membrane is finished depolarizing the gates will close.
In order to put the tubes and the computer sensing station through the membrane, they will be put in larger tubes with a mycelle covering the bottom half. The mycelle will bind to the membrane, bringing the two tubes in, but not through. Then the inner nanotube will be pushed through the inner side of the membrane so it can span the membrane. In order to power the device we are going to use flagella motors and to process the potential changes we will use a nanochip. Also, to keep the immune system from attacking the tubes, we are going to coat the tubes with a special membrane. We have figured out some of the details, but there are still more intricacies to work out. For next week, a few of us are going to work on making some drawings of our device on Inventor.
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