OPB
By Jes Burns (OPB)
Early prototypes of any technology can be a little persnickety. Just ask Sofia Fluke, a test engineer at the Brain Electrophysiology Lab in Eugene.
She sits hunched over her desk with a small, orange flathead screwdriver, trying to replace the lid on an electronics casing about the size of a deck of cards.
The screw wobbles as she turns it.
“It easily falls out if you’re not very, very slow,” she says. “It’s a very delicate process because we just made all of this ourselves.”