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We need to start making these immediately. Every day counts right now. Where’s the army of amateur hardware hackers and 3d printer folks that can start cranking
by npunt 7y ago
We need to start making these immediately. Every day counts right now. Where’s the army of amateur hardware hackers and 3d printer folks that can start cranking away on this?
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- fock 7y agoI think even in the US, there's a ton of defense contractors, which could produce a dozen of these in <2 weeks, iff they got told so. I don't think it's a 3d-printer problem though ;).
- radicalbyte 7y agoThere are enough normal contractors in the US that, if the will was there, you could be making hundreds of thousands of these in a month.
- landtuna 7y agoSpeaking from experience, large US defense contractors are incapable of producing a single sheet of paper with the proper signoffs to make a plan to schedule a meeting about the need for ventilators in under two weeks.
- rrmoelker 7y agoI was considering an ask HN on just this. Having an effort from makers and professionals to come up with designs for mechanical ventilators when things get dire. Now I understand jerry rigging medical devices is not advisable. But a pandemic like this may get to the point where DIY solutions may offer the solution. I heard from a general practitioner that mechanical ventilators also have fine pressure control. Which would make the whole system a lot more complex. So given that I figured the concept was to flawed. But the design by MIT doesn't have these fancy ventilator function either. So it seems a cheap, available, basic ventilator would still be valuable.