Low-Cost Arduino-Based Ventilator
This probably should have gone on the thread about flattening the curve not being enough. But.<p>Where is the core team of 12 people plus 108 collaborators that should have been assembled a month and a half ago to figure out how to retune US manufacturing to start producing stripped down ICU beds and the supplies needed to keep them operational?<p>This game is easy. The parameters are well understood. You could assign the basic problem to a middle schooler. Getting realistic numbers? Well it doesn't matter, no matter what those number are, every single fully functional ICU bed that can be brought online in the next 2 weeks is probably going to save 2 lives. According to some of the other economic analysis that has been posted here today suggesting that we let people die, that is 18 million dollars in human lives.<p>How many fully stocked ICU beds can you make for 18 million dollars? There's your startup idea for the next 2 weeks.<p>Not ignoring the fact that you need a team to staff it and work it, but guess what, you ALSO have two weeks to train as many people as you can to run these things.<p>WHERE IS THIS TEAM?