{"id":1384,"date":"2025-10-06T09:13:42","date_gmt":"2025-10-06T08:13:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/kengng\/?p=1384"},"modified":"2025-10-06T09:21:02","modified_gmt":"2025-10-06T08:21:02","slug":"otto-design-files-open-sourced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/kengng\/news\/otto-design-files-open-sourced\/","title":{"rendered":"Otto design files open-sourced"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity is-style-wide\" \/>\n\n\n\n<p>Ng KW. Design files for Otto, the Franz diffusion cell autosampling robot, Mendeley Data, V1, 2025. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.17632\/cvc9vxjgn9.1\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.17632\/cvc9vxjgn9.1<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-content-justification-center is-layout-flex wp-container-core-buttons-is-layout-1 wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.17632\/cvc9vxjgn9.1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Download files<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity is-style-wide\" \/>\n\n\n\n<p>We have open-sourced the design files for Otto, the Franz diffusion cell autosampler that we built to automate skin permeation studies. This means we&#8217;re sharing the 3D-printable models with the world, for free. Anyone may print, modify and share these files with others &#8212; with attribution. The files are released under the <a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/4.0\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/4.0\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">CC BY 4.0 licence<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Download the files using either link: <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.17632\/cvc9vxjgn9.1\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.17632\/cvc9vxjgn9.1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Mendeley Data<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.printables.com\/refresh?redirectUrl=%2Fmodel%2F1346514-otto-franz-diffusion-cell-autosampler-printable-pa\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.printables.com\/refresh?redirectUrl=%2Fmodel%2F1346514-otto-franz-diffusion-cell-autosampler-printable-pa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Printables<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here&#8217;s the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/posts\/ngkengwooi_automation-skin-permeation-activity-7378716424594223104-NROW?utm_source=share&amp;utm_medium=member_desktop&amp;rcm=ACoAAAV4XTEBl0h2uh00OwhPNaE2prEej9TXhT0\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/posts\/ngkengwooi_automation-skin-permeation-activity-7378716424594223104-NROW?utm_source=share&amp;utm_medium=member_desktop&amp;rcm=ACoAAAV4XTEBl0h2uh00OwhPNaE2prEej9TXhT0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">LinkedIn post<\/a> announcing the release.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here&#8217;s a video showing Otto in action:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Otto Performing a Sampling\/Refilling Operation\" width=\"525\" height=\"295\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/V5v0SwAWljU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ng KW. Design files for Otto, the Franz diffusion cell autosampling robot, Mendeley Data, V1, 2025. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.17632\/cvc9vxjgn9.1 We have open-sourced the design files for Otto, the Franz diffusion cell autosampler that we built to automate skin permeation studies. This means we&#8217;re sharing the 3D-printable models with the world, for free. Anyone may print, modify and &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/kengng\/news\/otto-design-files-open-sourced\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Otto design files open-sourced&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3965,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,4,10],"tags":[82,73,81,78,80,79,22],"class_list":["post-1384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-equipment","category-news","category-publications","tag-3d-printing-2","tag-automation","tag-franz-diffusion-cell","tag-otto","tag-permeation","tag-robotics","tag-skin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/kengng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/kengng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/kengng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/kengng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3965"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/kengng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1384"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/kengng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1384\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1393,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/kengng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1384\/revisions\/1393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/kengng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/kengng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/kengng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}