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Well a thing I made made it in. This is still pretty cool to put in the save-me box. My new job, one of the reasons I've been so inattentive to the forum lately, is that I'm the R&D Tech for this startup company, (that will go un-named here for spybot reasons). It's a bunch of engineers in a building handing me everything from post-its to blueprints and I build stuff for them. Just me in a nice little shop with some decent tools. It's a pretty cool job for a maker. The metal frame and tank tubes on the piece in this picture is all my work and I did most of the final assembly. You can tell it's mine because the transition from the steel tube frame to the round aluminum handle is bad lol. I was never any good with Bondo. We're over molding rubber on the handle now and it looks great. We're actually 3 revisions past this mock-up. This is a fully functional prototype. http://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2010-03/preventing-brain-damage-icy-nasal-sprayThe plastic case is an SLA one-off. Most of the base components are made by the engineers there. I build pieces. They build pieces. I get to put all the pieces together. Fun! |
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« Last Edit: March 20, 2010, 01:18:58 am by Artorius »
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« Reply #1 on: March 20, 2010, 01:19:13 am » |
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Congratulations, sir.
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« Reply #2 on: March 20, 2010, 03:57:03 am » |
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Congrats on the excellent work and wonderful employment !
yhs
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« Reply #3 on: March 20, 2010, 05:48:08 am » |
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I wish you lots of money
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« Reply #4 on: March 20, 2010, 05:56:40 am » |
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I can't wait to read all about it when my issue of Popular Science arrives.
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« Reply #5 on: March 20, 2010, 12:48:31 pm » |
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Congratulations. Quite a novel idea as well, instant brain freeze.
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« Reply #6 on: March 20, 2010, 03:20:18 pm » |
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Most excellent sir!
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« Reply #7 on: March 20, 2010, 08:42:47 pm » |
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Well done!
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« Reply #8 on: March 21, 2010, 12:51:57 am » |
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This is TERRIFIC!
I suffered a fatal heart attack about 9 months ago, spent 90 minutes clinically dead (was in a coma for 2 1/2 days). One of the reasons I survived was that the hospital used a hypothermic blanket to lower my body temperature. Hypothermic blankets are far more common in Europe than in the U.S., so I was lucky the hospital had one. I am an avowed fan of this sort of technology, as it really works and I think it needs to be far more widespread.
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« Reply #9 on: March 29, 2010, 08:53:26 pm » |
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That is awesome!
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« Reply #10 on: March 30, 2010, 01:47:37 am » |
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good show sir, if only this had been common place a few years ago, my mother may have not suffered the defecite she has today, keep up the good work
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« Reply #11 on: April 03, 2010, 03:57:25 pm » |
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Sir, such a wonderful life saving device. I congratulate you on such a wonderful accomplishment of building this contraption.
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« Reply #12 on: April 03, 2010, 06:23:16 pm » |
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Congrats! What an accomplishment, not only published but for the good of mankind and science alike!
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« Reply #13 on: April 04, 2010, 01:07:19 am » |
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What a great invention! Congratulations for your much deserved recognition.
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« Reply #14 on: April 04, 2010, 02:23:50 am » |
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Well done! And I'm not bitter at all that they completely ignored my version of said device (a steam-modded supersoaker filled with slurpee).
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« Reply #15 on: April 04, 2010, 03:36:36 am » |
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Well done! And I'm not bitter at all that they completely ignored my version of said device (a steam-modded supersoaker filled with slurpee).
I'll say right now that, when I read that, it's a good thing I wasn't drinking tea.  (And that's not something I say often!  ) But, anyway, congratulations! Good work on a very interesting product! |
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« Reply #16 on: April 04, 2010, 05:32:46 pm » |
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Thanks so much. Coming from this esteemed group these are hearty thanks indeed!
We're tooling up for an initial production run of actual "For Sale" units right now. The testing will go on but we met all the EU requirements now and can sell them there.
I'm building fixtures and machines that build or assemble parts now mostly. A lot of it has to be automated in a clean room environment so we need lots of fixtures and machines, yaaa!
Just finished one last week that unrolls the aluminum sealing tape from a huge roll, cuts a circle with an air punch, "spits" the circle out and drops it in a bottle cap then spits the cap into a box and does it all again. Over and over and over lol, Fun stuff!
That reminds me, I have to exercise my stock options soon lol.
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« Reply #17 on: April 18, 2010, 05:51:21 pm » |
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Does it come with a Nitrous oxide add on tank?  |
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