Geometrix Engineering Develops a Ventilator and Fabricates a Prototype скачать в хорошем качестве

Geometrix Engineering Develops a Ventilator and Fabricates a Prototype

Several weeks ago when I heard about the shortage of ventilators and the $4K to $50K cost of such a device, I immediately went into design mode. I watched Trump and AG Barr talk about laws against price gouging and hoarding. And then in the next sentence they started talking about how great of a job the pharmaceutical and medical device companies are doing during this pandemic. And then I thought to myself, “Aren’t these guys like the kings of price gouging?” While GM was only manufacturing the devices for another company, and while Tesla was shipping the wrong re-purposed CPAP devices, I was thinking about not necessarily “re-inventing the wheel”, but RE-INVENTING THE PRICE. I am an engineer by profession, and I decided to start researching and designing my own low-cost ventilator. I ended up spending about $275 on parts and 50-60 hours of my time. I wrote about 300 lines of code and soldered a small bundle of wires to various connections like power, ground, transmit and receive pins, analog signal pins, and more. The result of my efforts is a ventilator that uses ALL readily-available off-the-shelf products, with the exception of a couple of brackets that I fabricated on my 3D printer. I understand that a great deal of the cost of pharmaceuticals and medical devices goes into FDA approval (which I completely support) and liability insurance for those companies as well (which I also support), but $50K for a ventilator sounds excessive. www.geometrixeng.com #ventilators #medical