Team has released design plan that requires no software, or electronic expertise, online
A team of Irish researchers have created a ventilator using plywood, and used parts from cars and personal computers, which they say can be made anywhere in the world for under €50.who believes the ventilator could make the difference between life and death in developing countries where medics are struggling to cope with a surge in Covid-19 cases.
The team has released the design plan online “in an effort to save lives” and according to Mr Roberts no software, or electronic expertise, is needed. He said a key component of the ventilator is the motor from a car windscreen wiper, while the power supply comes from defunct personal computers. He and colleagues have also designed a helmet-like Covid mask sourcing material from a local boat-cover manufacturer and pipes from Sligo County Council, as well as using material from recycled wetsuits.
The lecturer was inspired by a story he read some years ago about a young Chinese man who was paralysed from the neck down after a motorcycle accident, whose family kept him alive for five years by squeezing a ventilator by hand hundreds of times a day.
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