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Sprint Day 0: An Open Source ventilator project you can believe in.

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EEVblog:

--- Quote from: ArthurDent on March 31, 2020, 03:08:27 am ---After a moment of thought I’ve decided not to remove my proper response and I will go further in explaining my reply. You just don’t wake up one day and say: “I think I’ll build an extremely complex and expensive piece of equipment called a ventilator.” While your intentions may be laudable if you don’t have the knowledge to carry out such an extreme undertaking and you’re trying to get volunteers on an internet forum (no matter how talented they may be) to join you in this quest, you just shouldn’t do it. If you can use your skills as “one heck of a planner and organizer” to eventually gain the knowledge, get some really talented professionals in the field, and get some financial backers with lots of cash, you won’t need to ask us for support. What will be telling is if you can write up a proposal that can persuade engineers and big finance professionals to join and support you-that would mean something, but you are far from that point. 
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I'll have to side with Authur on this one.
Whilst the intent is laudable, what is there to show other than enthusiasm and a poll to join a "steering committee"?  :-//


--- Quote ---I've searched hi and lo, looking for a ventilator project that has promise, but I haven't found anything that goes past raw concepts, or idealism w/o necessary skill.  I can promise you there will be none of that here -- we'll hit of our marks.
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You haven't even hit your first mark yet which would be some sort of concept, drawings, proposal etc.
Perhaps you can at least start by explaining why none of the other projects you have looked at have "promise", because from what I have seen they are far more advanced than your post and poll on a forum.
The thing is, you have asked a forum full of engineers to get involved in designing something complex without offering any starting platform. You can't expect engineers to shout woo-hoo!, lets do this!, we are more pragmatic than that.

ArthurDent:
https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/30/tech/mercedes-f1-breathing-aid-coronavirus/index.html?utm_term=link&utm_source=fbCNN&utm_medium=social&utm_content=2020-03-30T11%3A00%3A06&fbclid=IwAR3obrKqZy5SP07C9EtBJpDTSd2U69xp_LydP7ngI870bLrkgAoGgPs9WPQ

Enginerding:
Hey Dave!

So, you're in mate or do I have to do some convincing? lol

Let's size it up for what it is;  the developing World might be in deep, deep crap in the next few weeks.  Sadly, and there's nothing they can do about it but get punched in the face.

There may be a better project out there as you said; I proposed in OP (bolded text) that be the first task to determine.  And if there is a working project, let's bring it to light, and perhaps we can help them adopt the BOM for improvisation in the developing World.  Then call it a day.

But if your experience down there is anything like mine, there's 10 projects a day being touted by media, but when I chase them down, they're not much more than napkin sketches (here's one:  https://www.news4jax.com/health/2020/03/30/uf-researchers-develop-low-cost-open-source-ventilator/).  You've got a stellar eye for quality-- if any of the projects you've seen are "the one", please share.

But if they were, we wouldn't be having this conversation, right?  Think about it.

Enginerding:
This opportunity might not come again. An opportunity to literally, *literally* save lives.

And I'll close with this; the community you've built is the only distributed community in the world that has the resources to do this moonshot.   No one's ever done this before.  Would you like to be the first?

-Dan

Enginerding:

--- Quote from: ArthurDent on March 31, 2020, 04:37:15 am ---https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/30/tech/mercedes-f1-breathing-aid-coronavirus/index.html?utm_term=link&utm_source=fbCNN&utm_medium=social&utm_content=2020-03-30T11%3A00%3A06&fbclid=IwAR3obrKqZy5SP07C9EtBJpDTSd2U69xp_LydP7ngI870bLrkgAoGgPs9WPQ

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Can you run that one down Art?

- Do they have a Github to evaluate?
- Is there a BOM?
- What's your judgement of it?

Thanks.

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