Overview

Our project is to create a platform to levitate a magnetic material, small enough to be in place of a cluster of cells. It consists of three different sub-systems in order to achieve our requirements. The material is going to be placed inside a petri dish, which will be held by a container of our own design. The magnetic sub-system uses a series of magnets in order to levitate the material above the bottom of the petri dish, so that it doesn't experience the surface normal force. The optical sub-system will be for keeping track of the levitation height of the material, via a 'trip-wire'. The camera sub-system will be for monitoring the cell, by use of a camera positioned just above the petri dish, so researchers can keep track of the progress of the cells