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Copper 3D makes the free #N95 mask design to fight #COVID-19 pandemic spread

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With the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic around the world, many companies have joined the fight to stop the deadly virus by creating and producing various types of medical supplies and healthcare solutions. Clothing companies began to sew aprons and protective N95 masks, chemical companies produced antibacterial gels, public and private universities and research centers started projects to create solutions that would help in a simple and quick way to study and prevent the disease.

Companies from the 3D printing industry have also taken on this challenge by successively presenting projects that are easy and quick to implement, increasing protection and safety of people. Until now, we have described examples of cooperation between The FabLab in Milan and Isinnova, who created the missing valves for an intensive care device for the Italian hospital in Brescia, the Belgian Materialise, which created a simple and fast 3D printing model of a safe door opener or the Czech PRUSA Research, which has created its own antibacterial gel. Now we are presenting another project – it is possible that so far the most functional and useful of all the above …?

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Designing a low-cost, open source ventilator with Arduino #CoVID-19 #coronavirus

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Desperate times call for desperate measures, and while making your own medical equipment isn’t normally advisable, Johnny Lee’e project explores how to turn a CPAP machine into a ventilator.

The idea is that since these machines are basically just blowers controlled by a brushless DC motor, an Arduino Nano equipped with an electonic speed controller could allow it to act as a one.

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OxyGEN Prototype for #CoVID-19 #Coronavirus

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Concerned with the Pandemic, we, a group of engineers and makers, decided to join forces from our homes and workshops to try and contribute. With the purpose of freeing medical personnel in extreme situations, we have designed an open hardware device, which provides instructions for the automation of an existing AMBU type breathing system.
Something that anyone can build using very common parts and without special tools. All information is available at https://oxygen.protofy.xyz/. It’s an open project, the more we contribute, the better! Note: OxyGEN is not a certified medical device.

Microsoft’s Xbox Series X probably puts your gaming PC to shame: Full specs revealed

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Microsoft fully pulled back the curtain on the hardware powering the Xbox Series X on Monday, going deep in both an Xbox blog and an inside look provided to Eurogamer’s Digital Foundry. The disclosures didn’t divulge much beyond what we already knew or could discern but made one thing abundantly clear: Microsoft’s next-gen console will put most gaming PCs to shame.  

We knew that the Xbox Series X would feature AMD’s kick-ass Ryzen CPU cores, but now we know it’s the full monty. The console will come with an 8-core, 16-thread Ryzen implementation, running at a locked clock speed. That clock speed will vary depending on whether game developers want to tap into all those threads, or decide to stick to the eight physical cores alone for slightly faster single-thread performance. The chip will run at 3.8GHz if a game sticks to the physical CPU cores, or 3.66GHz if developers open up the full 16 threads.

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RaspberryPi vs. Arduino : The Battle of the Micros

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Hello guys, in today’s articles, I will try as much as i can to do justice to the comparison between an Arduino and a Raspberry Pi. Oftentimes, there has been a comparison between Window Vs Linux, Edilson Vs Tesla, AMD Vs Intel and micro-controller Vs microprocessor. People get confused when it comes to selecting/choosing the right boards for their next project which later leads to an argument or comparison.

Comparing these two boards is like comparing a calculator with a laptop, it’s kinda funny tho. The two boards have their advantages and disadvantages over one another.

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This genius created a Switch dock with fully integrated GameCube controller ports

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Not all heroes wear capes.

Although the creator of the blog “Built by Brock” isn’t going to go to your house and make this device at-will, the fact that it exists makes me happy. Yep, it’s a GameCube remote adapter that’s been fully integrated, seamlessly I might add, into the Switch dock: the four controller ports sit nicely in the open space on the back of the dock, where you plug the inputs in.

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