Elektor Helps: Keep on Making!
Join the Elektor Helps Projects Contest! [closed]
The winners
€250 voucher for the Elektor Shop:UV-C heat Arduino-controlled face-mask disinfecting device for Coronavirus by Jean.Noel
€100 voucher for the Elektor Shop:
- Touchless Jumbo Sanitizer for the pandemic by bera
- DIY Hand Sanitizer Dispenser without Arduino or MCU by Hesam_Moshiri
- Telegram interface for alarm control unit by pascal.tours
The contest
Click here for the Elektor Helps Projects Contest page (contest is closed).Everywhere people are launching solidarity projects to help others during this difficult period. Some have started to prepare and deliver food to hospitals, others make masks; there are companies that have repurposed (part of) their production facilities to make hydroalcoholic gel or spare parts for respiratory equipment. You surely have read or heard about similar initiatives where you live.
If you read this, then you probably have maker skills and the creativity to come up with practical solutions for problems. You also have tools, maybe a 3D printer, a CNC machine or a laser cutter; you may even have access to all of this and more.
Therefore, can you come up with an easy-to-build 1-meter-distance keeper or a fish-tank-pump-based breathing device or a touchless controller or some other useful thing that can be helpful to people with fewer resources?
Up to now we have been lucky and Elektor Labs is still up and running. Even though the staff present has been reduced to the stric minimum of two, all other employees continue to work from home.
At Elektor Labs we do not have production facilities. However, we do have a website with an international audience where anyone can post suggestions, and we have contacts all over the world. We know engineers and makers; we know big technology companies and bright, young start-ups. We can and will help with connecting people, finding solutions, technical advice, and production and distribution facilities.
Whatever you can do or come up with may help someone, somewhere. Therefore, keep on making!
Click here to post your idea(s).
Diskussion (5 Kommentare)
ElektorLabs vor 4 Jahren
ElektorLabs vor 4 Jahren
Other useful projects:
Pocket Distance Alarm
Corona Wearable Distance Monitor
DIY IR Contact Less Thermometer an IOT device
polli vor 4 Jahren
Hier you have the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xciYA16bMwM
You can see all animals don't move anymore at the end of the video.
When you google "magnetic field sterilisation" you will find many papers regarding this topic, even a patent. Obviously bacterias know, when it is sterilisation, then they die. When it is cure for the illness, they do not die according to schollmedicine (sarcasm off)
So maybe a squarewave generator helps you with corona,I don't know for sure, but I hope so. Just hold the 2 electrodes in your hands for 7 - 10 minutes. Use a frequency between 25 and 100 Khz.
piero25 vor 4 Jahren
Steven N Colthorpe vor 5 Jahren
I am no expert ( like nothing!!) on these devices, but I suggest anyone starting something should look at
https://gineersnow.com/industries/medical/engineers-build-diy-ventilator-hospitals
There is a lot of information buried in here. To meet the spec of what the UK gov are asking is beyond any individual, but I would really like to explorer the Ventilator-ish Device mentioned near the bottom. My idea would be to bolt a fan on the front of a 3d printed mask, and to have an arduino with Hbridge to push air in for a few seconds, pause then suck out. READ TEXT CAREFULLY. You can do severe harm with too much pressure or volume.
I would really love to get some medically trained persons opinion on this idea.
It is extremely simple to make compared to 'bag' solutions could be produced in a lot of makers sheds from scrap bin, until a manufacturer could set up proper production.
This is a very similar approach to welding respirators.
Steve
Tom Mulders vor 5 Jahren
How far is the project with the fish-tank-based breathing device?
I am thinking of developing a similar device Arduino programmed with a Mass Flow Controller.
I am working normally with Plasma Processing Equipment and vacuum tools (not vacuum cleaners...)
I believe this project could be rather urgent in light of the current Corona virus and shortage of breathing equipment.
I know there are many MFC's laying around in semiconductor industry in storage and I don't think there is any shortage of Arduino micro-controllers...
Please don't use this project to obtain MFC's for free and sell them on eBay. For these criminal immoral people I do have a "wish".... not hard to guess, I think...
Best regards,
Ton Mulders
PS An MFC has a typical flow which can be re-calibrated. The control is normally 0V for 0% of the maximum flow and 5V for the maximum flow. Besides it needs +15V, -15V and 0V.
Ioannis D. Kyriakidis vor 4 Jahren
Ioannis
MadMike vor 4 Jahren
Some of the sensing electronics is already in place
Ioannis D. Kyriakidis vor 5 Jahren
1. HEPA filters in inlet and of course outlet (as the patient may have an infection we do not want to spread in the air)
2. Valves to control the inlet and outlet
3. An air compressor of some kind
4. Tank with compressed air as a reservoire.
5. Not absolutely necessary but helpful, also Oxygen addition to the fresh air inlet
6. A controller to control all of the above
7. Low power if possible so it can work on batteries for some time in case of power loss.
I am willing to help in areas I know as an electronics engineer. But the project needs parts like flexible tubes, face masks and valves that I am not very much familiar with or can easily/cost bearable, source.
Ioannis
ElektorLabs vor 5 Jahren
For the moment the fish-tank-pump-based breathing device is just an idea. As I have no knowledge about breathing devices, I don't know if it will work. Is a controller needed? Why? Can't it just continuously pump? The flow is pretty low. But, like I said, I have no idea for the requirements of a breathing device.