integration is cheaper to mass produce but has a trade-off of a long lead time before production

modular systems are much faster to test, build, deploy and incrementially refine

modular systems also allow parallel production of components

parallel approach lends itself to distribution, Industry 4.0 manufacturing techniques

are you going to pretend that they dont build the components of the current machines first before assembling them?

what do you think this is

the 18th century?

If someone was to design a respirator with compliant mechanisms that people could 3d now, yeah, that’s great. We’ve got thousands and thousands of 3d printers all across the nation with folks locked in their houses... that’s not the problem.
The problem is the sensors, electronics and software you’ve got to stick into them. We don’t have that in volume.

that's the EASY part

and yes we do

@Scale_e and the fact no one sane is going to trust some random faggot to build vital componens for them

for every 3d printer, there is an electronics maker out there

the point, I believe, is that those things are still doable and are being done. Aforementioned italians with 3D printer as an example. Also, as mentioned, those will be kinda shit, but in desperate times 'kinda shit' will be still much more preferable to 'nothing'

with an arduino and sensor suite used for dozens of other projects

@Lucienne d'Anwyl You’re dying. You need a ventilator.
Make a decision:
A) A shit ventilator
B) No ventilator

shit, i myself could canabalize 4 of them right now

@Scale_e the people dying arent exactly in a position to make that choice are they

its the discretion of the hospitals

virtually EVERY 3d printer itself can be converted to a makeshift ventilator controller

@Scale_e just breathe retard

*Slaps forehead*

Of course!

Just breathe!

just pull the RAMPS and the arduino/raspi driving it

unironically yes

going outside and getting fresh air is better than nothing

common remedy for pneumatic diseases

*Calls up Don*
Don’t worry. We’ve got this.
Yeah.
Uh huh.
No, the solution was breathing.
Uh huh.
Yeah, I was shocked too.
Aight, Catch you later Big D.
*Hangs up*

lol

Put fire bellows in your mouth

the difference between a mild and a critical case is how you breathe

how healthy your lungs were prior to the disease

so yes just breathing isnt a bad solution

>tfw u realise people didn't breathe before C-19

*2020, everyone began to breathe manually.*

well theres the difference

between proper

and improper breathing

air quality

posture