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Sprint Day 0: An Open Source ventilator project you can believe in.
SilverSolder:
The "most promising" way to get more ventilators is probably to focus on increasing the manufacturing volume of an existing, proven design.
This is really a manufacturing challenge more than a design challenge...
Simon:
--- Quote from: SilverSolder on March 31, 2020, 02:38:37 pm ---
The "most promising" way to get more ventilators is probably to focus on increasing the manufacturing volume of an existing, proven design.
This is really a manufacturing challenge more than a design challenge...
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Which is why the UK government are playing brexit politicians with their biggest donor and the biggest wanker inventor dyson. All he has to do is build to print, but they are making a political statement.
SiliconWizard:
"Sprint Day 1"
Do I smell agile scrum bullshit here? ::)
mc172:
Enginerding, you're absolutely deluded. Say I'm the best design engineer in the world and have been designing ventilators for 20 years. Let's also say I come up with a working, flawless design in two weeks from now, or let's even pretend I've got one already. I did it just now.
Who's going to make it, who's going to pay for the prototype PCBs, the components, the tooling, who's going to make the tooling, who's going to use the tooling to make actual parts using injection moulding equipment, casting equipment, whatever? Who's testing the software? How are we going to qualify it? How long is this all going to take?
You seem to be serious about this so you should already have answers to these questions. I can't wait to see the Gantt chart.
Don't respond to me as if this is me indicating that I'm interested, with your wingnut "turn everything into a positive" project management bullshit either. I am not interested.
--- Quote from: Enginerding on March 31, 2020, 02:23:42 pm ---And Flooby, you're great -- I sent you a PM about how great you are.
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I think I was just a bit sick in my mouth.
SiliconWizard:
--- Quote from: mc172 on March 31, 2020, 03:51:10 pm ---Enginerding, you're absolutely deluded. Say I'm the best design engineer in the world and have been designing ventilators for 20 years. Let's also say I come up with a working, flawless design in two weeks from now, or let's even pretend I've got one already. I did it just now.
Who's going to make it, who's going to pay for the prototype PCBs, the components, the tooling, who's going to make the tooling, who's going to use the tooling to make actual parts using injection moulding equipment, casting equipment, whatever? Who's testing the software? How are we going to qualify it? How long is this all going to take?
You seem to be serious about this so you should already have answers to these questions. I can't wait to see the Gantt chart.
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I absolutely agree with you.
But just notice how those "open source ventilator" projects have become almost viral (no pun intended even)! It's like suddenly they are all over the place.
I agree this is a completely deluded endeavor. If one such project ever succeeded to the point of being usable in a life-threatening context, by the time it did, the pandemic would be long over (at least I hope so, else the whole world is likely going to collapse.)
I think if you absolutely want to contribute right now, there are myriads of other actions you can currently take that will be way more effective. Just MHO.
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