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I will have to look more, find out if this project is offered easily, cheaply, maybe even free. The design that is. Components? I would guess minimally $500, a lot of time, and outsourcing of a few things (welding, at this point). Worth it? Oh yes. Of course, not a thing for a prepper. It requires electricity. Given that it works on, mostly, low voltage (with the potential to volt up for a few components), it still might be functional should the prepper have set up a alternative electrical home-brew grid. *grins* What am I talking about? Ah, here you go.
Not only functional and good, and good for you, a project to make any engineering type just a bit more happy to have been gifted with that sort of mind. Sure, I might not have thought of it, living on a somewhat limited budget and with a minimal heart function, that is my lot. However, barring money concerns and energy levels, it is something I might eventually have hit upon. And who knows, perhaps I could make tiny improvements. To some degree, and often, that is what an engineer does. He takes good ideas and makes them faster, bigger, stronger, safer, smaller, whatever is needed or wanted. Science may jump in leaps and bounds, but it often fails for that reason. Engineering often just plods along. Well, until it does what science says can't be done or isn't "worth the effort" (such as with the light bulb, or even electricity to be honest). Engineers do, scientists think... often wrongly. Blah. So I am prejudiced, sue me. You will, by the way, lose that lawsuit. :p
Good night.
One of the concepts that was prominently on display at this year's AutoDesk University was the democratization of design/invention and small scale manufacture. This kind of process is an outgrowth of this trend. Websites like Instructables, and facilities like Tech Shop are bringing tools for innovation directly into the hands of far more people than ever before.
ReplyDeleteIn other words, the possibilities, they boggle!
Excellent. While there is a solid place for bigger companies, I honestly thing that having a huge area for basement/garage inventors and entrepreneurs is even more vital.
ReplyDeleteAside from not being very capable of keeping to something, and of course money, is a weak programming-fu. Actually, I have zero programming skills. I'm not even sure how to kick-start learning programming. If you have it did you start on your own (and how, is it still available, viable) or did you get it in k-12 or college?