Gel Electrophoresis Comb (Utah U Compatible)

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This is a comb for gel electrophoresis based on the gel box instructions by the University of Utah. (http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/content/labs/gel/build_gel_box.pdf) I happen to work in an Acrylic shop, so I had everything lying around except the Teflon for the gel comb. I figured "hey, why don't I just print it?" and made a quick model traced from the one in the instructions. Happy biohacking! Print Settings Printer Brand: LulzBot Printer: TAZ 5 Rafts: Doesn't Matter Supports: No How I Designed This First, printed out the PDF from Utah U's website to make sure it would fit in the gel carrier at exactly that size. Then I Imported the PDF into Inkscape and traced over the comb. I tried using the usual BMP trace feature, but it was sloppy and I found it simpler, quicker, and overall better to just draw and duplicate some rectangles on a layer above the image. Finally, I used the paths-to-openSCAD plugin (http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:25036) and subsequently OpenSCAD to come to the resulting STL file.