Applicability of pioreactor hardware/software for larger bioreactor setups?

Feedback and suggestions
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I’m currently running a benchtop bioreactor setup in the 1L range, and have temperature, DO, pH sensors etc. In general, bioreactor software is expensive and tends to be pretty locked into using specific hardware/software combinations. I basically want to be able to use whatever the cheapest hardware is that’s available and control it using custom scripts (dose base when pH gets too low etc.).

I like the philosophy of the pioreactor, and the code and hardware base seem great. I’m just wondering, before I embark on trying to get it to work, if there’s anything fundamentally stopping me from using what’s already there combined with plugins etc. for my use case?

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There isnt if you know your way around software. Im doing so myself

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Thanks for the response! Very happy to wade into the software/hardware, but didn’t want to come up against some massive challenge after already investing a lot of time so that’s really helpful, thanks! Any chance we could have a call just so I can get a few more details from you?

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sure thing. ill send you a message

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Hi! I’m working on a similar project! My knowledge on coding and modelling is rather limited but I would be super interested in jumping in chatting over to share some ideas :slight_smile: I am posting how things are going here: (WIP) From PioReactor to FlavorReactor