FLYDE Plate Components

This is a design for a new CO2 "fly plate" - a important piece of equipment in fly labs that allows us to keep flies anesthetized. While there are many put there on the market...

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...they are ridiculously expensive (100-200$ each), and I have always built my own (by cutting up plexiglass). I have always wondered why a simple, cost-effective plate wasn't available.

Since we had access to the Wilfrid Laurier University Science Maker Lab, in our non-fly-pushing time, summer NSERC USRA student Jordan Hyde and myself I worked on creating a prototype that could be made using a 3D-printer and a laser-cutter.

Love to hear your comments! Happy fly-pushin