Destiny is the code name for the mini automated reactor show here.  The reactor was developed by Argonaut, which was bought by Biotage.  The current commercial product name is Advantage Series 2410 and its sister product Advantage Series 2350. These personal screening synthesizers are designed to help process chemists who work with small amounts of material to simulate thermal and mixing conditions seen in larger production reactors.

Argonaut used internal resources to develop the first version of the Destiny software using eMbedded Visual Basic.  Architectural and platform choices made during development resulted in a control system that could not provide accurate, steady control of the reactors.  Pioneer Software?s senior software engineer Jim Shaffer was contracted to re-architect the software from scratch and deliver a new control system that could provide accurate and steady control.

The Destiny device uses a custom single-board computer running real time Windows CE and attached to a TFT touch display. A custom PCI hardware board provided an I/O interface to the device, allowing the control system direct, real time control of the individual reactor components.  The control system was developed in eMbedded C++ using only the WIN32 API to ensure maximum performance.  No 3^rd party libraries or tools were used.  One version of the software supports both the 4-reactor 2410 and the 3-reactor 2350 devices.