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Real Time with… AltiumLive 2020: OSV Project—From Zero to Ventilator PCBs in Record Time
November 4, 2020 | I-Connect007 Editorial TeamEstimated reading time: Less than a minute
Andy Shaughnessy recently spoke with Chris Denney, CTO of Worthington Assembly, about his role in the Open Source Ventilator project, which he discussed during a panel at AltiumLive with partners Dugan Karnazes of Velocity Research and Rob Cooke of Calumet Electronics. Chris explains how many of the normal hurdles disappeared once the focus on revenue was removed from the equation, and the ventilator PCBs were designed and manufactured in record time.
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