Hey yall,
I was wondering if it was possible to manually adjust the location and number of tips within a tiprack definition. I would like to be able to update the tipracks Labware data so that specific tiprack slots like A3, B1, C4 etc are marked as empty within the tiprack or so that the protocol selects B1 as the first pipette tip rather than A1. Does anyone know how to accomplish this?
Hey Jonathan, asking our internal team about this to see if you can use indexing to accomplish this… will get back to you soon!
Hey @jonathan_till, if you’re using Python, you can create a runtime parameter to select the starting tip rack and tip and choose at runtime. Would this solution work for you?
Hey Meghan, yes I think that should work, thanks for your help!
An example would be: (from the opentrons website)
parameters.add_str(
variable_name=“Starting_Tip”,
display_name=“Starting Tip”,
description=“Starting tip”,
choices=[
{“display_name”: “A1”, “value”: “A1”},
{“display_name”: “B1”, “value”: “B1”},
]
)
#etc. just have chatgpt write you the display name dictionary for a 96 tiprack
starting_tip = protocol.params.Starting_Tip
p300.starting_tip = p300_tipracks[0].well(starting_tip)
I know opentrons already responded to you but I like this just to be available for others who might want to see it
