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A project log for COSV - Cam Open Source Ventilator

Roller cam based portable BVM ventilator.

daren-schwenkeDaren Schwenke 06/05/2020 at 04:460 Comments

We have some.  

We should not.  

This is not a judgement on anyone involved in said 'Drama'.  Mistakes were made, but I don't believe anyone actually intended for the 'Drama' happening right now, to happen.  

I chose not to believe that.

In any case, I basically burned myself out and was physically ill for a while, and so I personally have done very little in the way of actual work on this project.  Sleeping was far more attractive and probably much better for me.

In the meantime the laser cutter I was using to prototype my parts here 'went away', the city is on lockdown, the AC is not working, and I then I enticed a few very time consuminmg things to bite me.  It has not been a good week.

We will prevail.

I do have *one* working prototype though and through the significant effort of @Steven.Carr probably multiple modes, servo control of the motor subsystem, failure detection of individual components, etc.  Working is a relative term here as I still have yet to fix what may just be a simple serial issue to even find out.  Basically he wrote a pure C version of what I did in Python/Kivy for the UI and the serial protocol to implement it, in what seemed like a day.  Bastard.  :)

At this point though I can probably get to that... um... Sunday.

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