Someone is getting an education. In the last week a lot of progress has been made. InqVent has been added to Dr. Robert Read’s COVID-19 Vent List and I’ve joined Helpful Engineering. Think of them as clearing houses of doctors and engineers collaborating to create COVID-19 emergency ventilators. The former is razor focused on ventilators …
The development is on-going and rapid. The Introduction Video for version 7 published for the Virtual Maker’s Faire was just a stepping stone along the way. Version 8 Version 8 was meant to address the change is atmospheric pressure due to weather. It turns out that the pressures needed for ventilators is quite trivial in …
Originally, I had InqVent at just below $30. During building the parts list page, I discovered a couple of the pieces had gone off sale and some had increased significantly since the pandemic started. Also, all the little bits and pieces that just come out of my parts bins were not really accounted for. And …
Makers/DIY’rs are a troubled sort. They understand how things work. They know what it takes to put things together. When they look at something, their first words tend not to be, how useful that is or how beautiful that is. It’s always, “I can make that!” Often they can make it for way cheaper, but …