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Re: [LUG] Raspberry Pi Ventilator

 


On 13/04/2020 21:08, Gordon Henderson wrote:
On Mon, 13 Apr 2020, Roland Tarver via list wrote:

Hi Folks,

BBC News - Coronavirus: Raspberry Pi-powered ventilator to be tested in
Colombia

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-52251286

Thought this was pretty cool. If it can be made to work.

Bloody hell, I hope not.

This is the job for a proper embedded microcotroller designed for the task. PIC or AVR style not some educational computer running a multi-user, multi-tasking operating system vulnerable to 1000 hacks )-:

(And Yes, I have experience of this)

Gordon

Given the choice of life or death and there was nothing else available, I would take it.

--
Giles Coochey


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