[Balgair]

I'll give the OP an idea for a project, based on a problem I have in the lab: Pulling Pipette tips.

Any mol-bio lab has seen one of these guys around: https://www.sutter.com/MICROPIPETTE/p-97.html

Anyone that has had to pull tips knows how much it sucks. It takes dozens of glasses to finally get all the parameters working well, and that takes an hour minimum. After all that, you then get to start the experiments. And then a storm comes through and messes with the pressure and humidity and all the parameters are wrong again.

So, if the OP could program a calculator-thingy that takes in current conditions, some parameters specific to your lab and your puller, what you want the resistance and tip angle to be, and then spits out a set of numbers to program the puller, that would be SO USEFUL! I'm not saying that I want the exact numbers, but I'd like a pretty good range of them.