Re: Did anything ever come of this effort?
Hi Gordon et al, Just an FYI, Robert Read, Ben Coombs and I are attempting to write up "the great ventilator rush of 2020".
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Erich Schulz
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Re: Did anything ever come of this effort?
There's actually quite a diverse collection of groups that spawned around the same time. Many are still very active, coming together and getting increasingly organised. Many have now established a
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Erich Schulz
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Re: Did anything ever come of this effort?
OK...done! Jack, W8TEE
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jjpurdum
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Re: Did anything ever come of this effort?
YES that would be useful. I've got a talk to give Tuesday night and famly coming for which I have to havve a boat going for Friday.....and the list goes on and on. But I gave two online lectures to
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Gordon Gibby KX4Z
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Re: Did anything ever come of this effort?
I'll remind you again in about a month...would that be useful? I just fine Rich to be a nice guy and I try to help him when I can. Enjoy the weekend!! Jack, W8TEE
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jjpurdum
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Re: Did anything ever come of this effort?
Aargh....darn. I didn't do an article. I was asked (at least for now) to help with an ARRL item and gee I haven't thought about it. Thanks for reminding me. Sign me 'rueful' Gordon
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Gordon Gibby KX4Z
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Re: Did anything ever come of this effort?
Thanks, Gordon. Jack, W8TEE P.S.? Did you do the article for Rich at CQ??
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jjpurdum
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Re: Did anything ever come of this effort?
Hi Bob -- I check back with the UF group from time to time and the matter is still in review at the FDA. Crucial LEARNING POINTS: 1. Earlier and more frequent communications with the FDA would have
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Gordon Gibby KX4Z
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Did anything ever come of this effort?
Topic says it all.
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Bob Benedict, KD8CGH
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Re: Arduino Alternatives
Yes, I've been looking at O2 concentrators. An interesting challenge to design a ventilator that can work from a gas supply of only a couple pounds of pressure.
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Tom, wb6b
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Re: Arduino Alternatives
Agree Tom. Oxygen supply will be critical. There are channels on Helpful that are looking at concentrators etc too.
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Erich Schulz
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Re: Arduino Alternatives
I'll check that out. I learned a terrific amount about ventilators from this group, Gordon's work along with the rest. And reading the many resources pointed out, including yours. Just to check what I
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Tom, wb6b
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Re: Arduino Alternatives
Hey folk, for those still with energy I think you'll all find lots of kindred spirits in the very active Slack run by volunteers at https://www.helpfulengineering.org/ There are a variety of channels
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Erich Schulz
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Re: Arduino Alternatives
Where I started to run into problems was with the various GUI libraries, the Adafruit GFX libraries and individual TFT drivers. (One was the Adafruit GFX library upgrading to allow non-square pixels,
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Tom, wb6b
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Re: Arduino Alternatives
All: I'm working on a new beginning C book to replace Beginning C for Arduino. The new book is Beginning C for Microcontrollers and features the Arduino family, but also the STM32F103, the ESP32, and
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jjpurdum
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Re: Arduino Alternatives
Hi Ashhar, Read your bluepill info, very helpful information collected into one place. A while back Roger Clark transferred his Arduino STM32 BBS to STM, that might have signaled the end of updates to
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Tom, wb6b
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Re: Arduino Alternatives
I have sorted out the toolchain for the bluepill. here it is: https://www.vu2ese.com/index.php/2020/06/30/bluepill-setup-on-arduino-with-ubuntu-linux/
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Ashhar Farhan
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Re: System cost vs LCD
#pcbdesign
I was surprised recently when I was designing a little remote monitor and thought it would be nice for it to have a local display on the device. Originally I thought a 7 segment display like what
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Tom, wb6b
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Re: System cost vs LCD
#pcbdesign
Sorry...Steve and others.... I was discussing lack of LCD displays over on the QRP-Labs group and absent mindedly posted a comment on LCD availability to the Ventilator Discussion group. Answer is
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Arv Evans
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Re: System cost vs LCD
#pcbdesign
There are lots of 1602 style LCD displays available via Ebay. If I understand correctly, the problem is that QRP-Labs supplier did not or could not supply the correct ones in adequate numbers for
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Arv Evans
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