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| mikeselectricstuff:
https://blog.adafruit.com/2020/03/30/medtronic-shares-ventilation-design-specifications-to-accelerate-efforts-to-increase-global-ventilator-production-medtronic/ Link ( no registration version ) : https://www.medtronic.com/us-en/e/open-files/thank-you.html --- Quote ---More documents pertaining to the PB560 ventilator system will be available here soon. --- End quote --- Yeah right - believe it when I see it. Why release an incomplete set of docs other than for free publicity? BTW there is a 555 timer in there ! |
| thm_w:
Still cool to take a look at the schematics, even if the rest of the stuff is never released. |
| free_electron:
hey, you got the source ... just like so many other 'open source' projects ... half document , unworkable , not turnkey , and in a format that no machine can read , or using obsolete cad systems |
| m98:
Better than I thought. Especially the requirements documents are probably the most important base for someone wanting to create a derived product. The schematics are about as simple as expected, so unless you wanted to make a 1:1 clone, it's not a big deal to recreate the PCBs. Rewriting the software is probably the bigger challenge, in the very likely case they don't release their source code. |
| tooki:
--- Quote from: mikeselectricstuff on March 30, 2020, 10:19:56 pm ---https://blog.adafruit.com/2020/03/30/medtronic-shares-ventilation-design-specifications-to-accelerate-efforts-to-increase-global-ventilator-production-medtronic/ Link ( no registration version ) : https://www.medtronic.com/us-en/e/open-files/thank-you.html --- Quote ---More documents pertaining to the PB560 ventilator system will be available here soon. --- End quote --- Yeah right - believe it when I see it. Why release an incomplete set of docs other than for free publicity? BTW there is a 555 timer in there ! --- End quote --- Why the cynicism? Who pissed in your corn flakes this morning? Who cares what their motivations are, if what they are doing is clearly a good thing? Of all the things to get your panties in a twist about, this one just doesn't make sense. |
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