Tag Archives: DIY

Low-cost open source ventilator-ish device

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Johnny made a low-cost ventilator-ish device, that is available on GitHub:

In the event that COVID-19 hospitalizations exhaust the availability of FDA approved ventilators. This project documents the process of converting a low-cost CPAP (Continuous Positive Airway Pressure) blower into a rudimentary non-invasive pressure support ventilator that could help with breathing during respiratory distress. It’s an evolving project, but in it’s current form, it most aligned with the definition of a non-invasive pressure support BiPAP ventilator.
This same project can also be used to create a reasonable low-cost Powered Air Purifying Respirator (PAPR) with filter adapter and mask.

See the full post on Johnny Chung Lee’s project blog.

Check out the video after the break.

Nano sheet factory

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Building a nano sheet machine @ Fablab RUC

Sometimes even very expensive and well build equipment breaks. This recently happened to researcher Biljana Mojsoska, a chemist at Roskilde University. She was working with nano sheets, an anti-bacterial coating for medical surfaces, as her machine stopped working.
The fact that such equipment can be so expensive to replace or repair triggered Jakub Klust and Bo Thorning at Fablab RUC. Could they build a machine with the same functionalities, using the equipment available at FabLab RUC? Would it be possible to build a much cheaper and easier to fix version of Biljana Mojsoska machine?

See the full post at fablab.ruc.dk.

DIY portable video conference, sharing and teaching device

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A DIY conference and teaching device @ mcuoneclipse.com:

COVID-19 is by far not over, and in Switzerland the infection rate is going up again (2nd wave?). During the spring 2020 semester university lock-down we moved pretty much everything to a ‘distance learning’ setup. With that experience and with the request to prepare for the fall semester, I have constructed a DIY conference and teaching device which should make things simpler and easier: a combination of video camera, speaker phone and a muting device

Build your own HF balun

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Miguel, EA4EOZ, posted this great DIY tutorial on building your own balun:

A balun is a MUST for dipoles or similar antennas when they are feed with coaxial cables. Many hams connect the center conductor of the coaxial cable to one side of the dipole, and the shield to the other. Wrong!
From the RF point of view, the shield can be modeled as two conductors, the internal shield (the real shield, this is, ground) and the external shield, who is really far to be ground. In this way, your dipole has 3 arms, the two from the dipole and the coaxial cable shield (external face).

See the full post on EA4EOZ blog.

DIY OpenDPS power supply

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Evan’s DIY OpenDPS power supply:

Years ago I heard about the OpenDPS project to give open source firmware to cheap and available chinese power supplies. These aren’t strictly whole power supplies, they are configurable CC and CV buck converters. That means that it needs a stable DC source to back it to be used as a bench power supply. Perhaps you may not want to do this if you intend to use the DPS as a battery charger run from a solar supply or something, but most people I see want to use them for bench supplies so that requires an existing DC supply. Today I finally finished mine.