Ham radio operators help design low cost ventilator

[Stan Cooper]

With the anticipated shortage of ventilators, this appears to be good news.

http://www.arrl.org/news/radio-amateurs-team-up-to-help-university-design-low-cost-ventilator

UofF Low Cost Ventilator.jpg

 

[PeterNSteinmetz]

Very cool. Likely will be a bear to get approval to use such a thing in the US I imagine. These do not appear to be terribly difficult to make as a basic version, but probably hard to get safety guarantees.