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24 alternatives to My dad designed and built a ventilator prototype with a bicycle pump
A father-designed ventilator prototype that uses a bicycle pump as its mechanism. Created and built during the early pandemic period, this project demonstrates an approach to emergency respiratory equipment using… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. My dad designed and built a ventilator prototype with a bicycle pump launched in 2020; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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Hey HN! Some more info: I’m an NHS doctor and the founder of Pi-A (https://www.pi-a.io) which developed Lungy (https://www.lungy.app). Lungy is an app (iOS only for now) that responds to breathing in real-time and was designed to make breathing exercises more engaging and beneficial to do. It hopefully has many aspects of interest to the HN community – real-time fluid, cloth and soft body sims running on the phone’s GPU. My background is as a junior surgical trainee and I started building Lungy in 2020 during the first COVID lockdown in London. During COVID, there were…
2023 · lungy.app · its alternatives →
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It was a lot of work as a solo project but I hope you guys think it’s cool. When I say “we” in the website it’s only in the most royal sense possible. I also did all the photo/videography. I started out designing a single machine for personal use, but like many things it sort of spiraled out of control from there. I felt like espresso machines were getting very large, plasticky, and app-integrated without actually improving the underlying technologies that make them work. The noisy vibratory pumps in particular are from 1977 and haven’t really changed since then. So I wanted to focus on…
2024 · velofuso.com · its alternatives →
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An open-source collaborative ventilator project. 🚑
2020 · openlung.org · its alternatives →
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Hendo Hoverboard▲379World's first REAL hoverboard (pre-launch)
2014 · whitecollarglam.com · its alternatives →
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Hi HN, This is my attempt to fix groggy mornings by lowering my bedroom CO2 from 1700 ppm to ~900 ppm. I designed a simple, 3D-printed fan duct that directs air under the door to improve air circulation. A note on the design process: I used CadQuery, a Python library for creating parametric 3D models. I didn't know tools like this existed and highly recommend it if you can program; it turned out to be more convenient than manually iterating on prototypes in a GUI. The project is open source and the post explains the full build. Happy to answer any questions.
2025 · lepekhin.com · its alternatives →
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3D Printed Cycloidal Gearbox . Contribute to tom-ilan/cycloidal_gearbox development by creating an account on GitHub.
Aug 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Bell Cycles▲69Front wheel drive + compact bicycle that comes as a kit.
2018 · kickstarter.com · its alternatives →
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Max Pump 2▲89Portable electric air pump that can quickly inflate/deflate.
2018 · kickstarter.com · its alternatives →
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Fidget Moire▲783-in-1 air freshener with dynamic animation
2021 · numberzero.net · its alternatives →
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Long time reader, first time self-promoter. I'm a bicycle mechanic that figured I could make the process of bicycle wheelbuilding faster, more accurate and more satisfying. I do it by sampling digital indicators, rendering the data in useful ways, and injecting domain-specific insights. The UI interaction happens by foot pedal so my paradigm retains the traditional way of working with your hands.
2022 · islandix.com · its alternatives →
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Two-wheeled Bike innovations that'll blow your mind
2015 · soundcloud.com · its alternatives →
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Hey HN! I’m an NHS doctor and the founder of Pia (https://www.piahealth.co) which developed Lungy (https://www.lungy.app). Lungy is an iOS app that responds to breathing in real-time and was designed to make breathing exercises more engaging and beneficial to do. It’s been two years since Lungy launched (here’s the original ShowHN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34534615) and it's had a huge update and complete redesign. We rebuilt the whole app, and added a real-time 3D soft body solver which gives some really cool interactions like blobs /…
2025 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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Airing▲100A mask-less, hose-less, cordless micro-CPAP (pre-launch)
2015 · fundairing.com · its alternatives →
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2023 · pedalpc.com · its alternatives →
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2010 · projectexcitebike.blogspot.com · its alternatives →
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