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I think ~100k RPM is achievable with a shirt button on a bunch of twisted strings, pulled on both ends. This was actually used to construct a cheap mechanism t
by praptak 7y ago
I think ~100k RPM is achievable with a shirt button on a bunch of twisted strings, pulled on both ends.
This was actually used to construct a cheap mechanism that needed the high g to separate some chemicals to analyse samples. I can't remember the details though.
- astatine 7y ago125k RPM. For malaria detection using a whirling paper centrifuge, powered entirely by hand. https://news.stanford.edu/2017/01/10/whirligig-toy-bioengineers-develop-20-cent-hand-powered-blood-centrifuge/ https://news.stanford.edu/2017/01/10/whirligig-toy-bioengine...
- praptak 7y agoThank you! I was not able to dig this up.