Team:INSA-Lyon/Partnership
From 2014.igem.org
During the making of our project, we had the time to assist other teams and participate in meet ups to spread and share the iGEM spirit!
Collaboration with Paris Saclay
This was one of our main collaborations. We had some difficulties because it was a new technology and we weren’t familiar with it, so we had to contact a mechanics teacher to help us make the design. We also had a basic training in 3D printing in order to learn how to use the scanner and the printer.
The mould creation involved two main steps.
First, we had to calibrate a scanner in order to digitalize the lemon structure.
![Scan proceeded](https://static.igem.org/mediawiki/2014/thumb/7/73/Scancitron.jpg/800px-Scancitron.jpg)
Figure 1: Lemon 3D scanning
Then, we designed the mould with the coordinates given by the scanner.
![Collaboration Saclay](https://static.igem.org/mediawiki/2014/6/6e/Citroon.jpg)
Figure 2: Lemon mould design
And finally, we printed it with a 3D printer and sent it to the Paris Saclay team in Paris.
![Lemonfinished](https://static.igem.org/mediawiki/2014/thumb/b/b8/Moulecitron.jpg/800px-Moulecitron.jpg)
Figure 3: 3D printed lemon mould
With the mould, the Paris Saclay team could give the shape to their bio-lemon and they got pretty good results!
Figure 4: Lemon mould and biolemon!
In return, they distributed our biology perceptions surveys in French schools.
Collaboration with Paris Bettencourt with a French Meet up , and Participation as a guinea-pig for their project, "The Smell of us !"