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When someone is experiencing cardiac arrest, the time taken to receive treatment is often the deciding factor between life and death. Public defibrillators are becoming increasingly common, but if you're untrained, they can be tricky to operate properly, plus they're not widespread enough to service all cardiac arrest patients. So an engineering student from Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands has proposed a solution - an ambulance drone that can fly a defibrillator to the patient within a fraction of the time it takes emergency services to arrive.
The ambulance drone is a hexacopter that can travel to a location within 12 square kilometres in about a minute. According to Alec Momont, the designer of the drone, this quick response can increase a heart attack patient’s chances of survival tenfold.
When a patient has a heart attack and an emergency call is placed, the drone is able to track the location of the call using an in-built GPS for navigation, and fly there at a speed of 100 kilometres per hour. Upon landing, an operator tunes in like a paramedic, giving instructions to someone nearby on how to use the defibrillator to treat the patient. The drone also has an in-built camera that allows the operator to ensure the defibrillator is being used correctly.
what is the limitation of today's GPS technology and we can't position someone/something within let's say a meter accuracy?-kalos (November 01, 2014, 02:35 PM)
While government/military systems can thread a needle from space, they don't think the civilian riff-raff need that sort of pin point accuracy ... Hence we don't get access to it.
...It really is just that simple.-Stoic Joker (November 01, 2014, 02:59 PM)
Anybody got any cool ideas for Software creations for NANY 2015? I am drawing a complete blank here
Obviously any ideas posted here would serve a huge purpose to anybody else wanting to make something for NANY and is staring at the same brick wall as me
Cheers!
~Stephen-Stephen66515 (October 07, 2014, 12:45 PM)
What's your forte... games?-crabby3 (October 31, 2014, 08:27 AM)
Known Issues
• If large amounts of data are passing through Slack at any one time (IE: Oeruse of the Giphy Integration), Window will go blank due to a possible memory leak - Bug has not been identified fully but I am aware of this happening.
• Cache and Memory not being cleared properly. - Resolution for this has been (hopefully) identified and will be resolved in the next build.
This might be of interest:The WordPress project is testing out Slack as our main real-time communication platform, replacing IRC and ad hoc Skype chats. When compiling a list of things people liked about our existing options, it was obvious that Slack was all of that and more, including:
Open for everyone
Friendly user interface
Easy asynchronous conversation
iOS and Android apps
Powerful customization abilities
Excellent search
Wait, replaces IRC? Yes. WordPress has always used Freenode for its real-time communication, and we’re especially grateful for what Freenode and IRC have done for Free and Open Source Software projects.
More at
https://make.wordpress.org/chat/-rgdot (October 28, 2014, 07:36 PM)
You should make a DonationCoder slack team.
So I've noticed that when it's minimized to tray, if I double click or right-click and select "Show Main Window" it will make the window show up in the task bar, but it doesn't actually show the window until I click it in the task bar. So that's kind of useless.
Also, while it's in the state of still minimized but showing in the task bar, it also still shows it in the tray, which I think it should only do when it's minimized. Which... erm... I guess it is/does. So once you fix the first problem, this second one will also go away.
I'd also like to request a portable/zip/non-installer version.-Deozaan (October 29, 2014, 01:39 AM)
It would be nice if you could discover what was enabling the audio alerts before, since they are no longer working for me.-app103 (October 29, 2014, 03:15 AM)
I can work on it locally, then package the whole thing up, database & all, and then hand it over to mouser. It would then be up to him to use it or not. And if he chooses not to, do I then host it myself? Does etiquette say that's an acceptable thing to do? Or do I end up having to accept the idea that I just did a ton of work for nothing?-app103 (October 27, 2014, 08:55 PM)
What I mean is that it would be hard for someone without mouser's approval to make wholesale changes to the site. And this would be pretty much a wholesale change. He's also on the line as a pig, whereas we're all chickens. I try to always keep that in mind with anything for the site... I might disagree, but I'm not the one on the hook when it comes down to it.
Just my-wraith808 (October 27, 2014, 07:02 PM)
Almost 3.5 years later and I am sitting here with the feeling that I should have just gone ahead and done it, and handed it to mouser. And it still bothers me enough that I am considering just doing it and calling it my NANY project for this year.-app103 (October 27, 2014, 09:51 AM)
Sounds like a plan! And why not?-40hz (October 27, 2014, 04:04 PM)
I can tell you why not... it's not her site. That's just one reason that I'd think of if it was me. But I think that's the big one that's been holding her back if you look between the lines.-wraith808 (October 27, 2014, 06:44 PM)
Overall, this is probably one of the most depressing threads I've read in a long time.
I'm not a coder. But I am a musician. And if musicians (as a collective) can routinely gather "fiercely independent personalities" (including the occasional hyper-talented albeit bona fide sociopath) to collaborate on artistically valid, and financially remunerative projects...I'm wondering why coders can't do the same?
Is this 'problem' real? Or is it just something coders have programmed themselves to believe?-40hz (October 26, 2014, 08:29 AM)
I wasn't speaking about developers in general. I was speaking about here and from experience.
Check the date on this post and read through that thread: https://www.donation...ex.php?topic=25932.0
That thread was started after a discussion in the IRC channel, and mouser suggested I post about it and get some input from the community.
Almost 3.5 years later and I am sitting here with the feeling that I should have just gone ahead and done it, and handed it to mouser. And it still bothers me enough that I am considering just doing it and calling it my NANY project for this year.
And I don't care if it ends up only being used for a few months, or ultimately, a few years.
So, it's not that there isn't a desire to contribute, and not that we don't want to work together. Some of us are still waiting for their assignments, have sat by and watched someone else end up with the assignment they were best suited for, watched that person eventually abandon the project, and are getting the feeling that they are never going to be taken seriously, and are trying really hard not to take it personally and feel insulted by it.
Is that how big projects get done? Obviously not, if 3.5 years later we still don't have a DoCo 2.0 or at the very least, a proper software repository.-app103 (October 27, 2014, 09:51 AM)
While this may sound gimmicky, removing windows has the added benefit of weight reduction and would also simplify plane construction. It would also allow greater flexibility when designing the interior of the plane.
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Read more at http://www.iflscienc...#k77557fLHpV346hZ.99-Stephen66515 (August 22, 2014, 07:18 PM)
What? The windows on planes I've been on feel like some kind of plastic. How is replacing a bunch of windows with a couple huge displays and the wiring needed for them going to decrease weight?-Deozaan (October 27, 2014, 02:50 PM)
Windows, window frames, and bracing for the hole where the window goes would all be removed. Then the screen material (which would also be plastic) would replace the currently used interior walls...so yeah, I can see it dropping a bit.-Stoic Joker (October 27, 2014, 03:41 PM)
Bvckup is a handly little utility (less than 500kb in size) for backup up files to different drives/computers.
From what I can gather, it does not actually upload the entire file, each and every time you process it. Instead, it locates the changed data, and only uploads that portion of it to the original file, saving very large amounts of time on each upload.
Excellent question bernie. And good guess stephen -- but not quite correct. Who can guess (moderators not allowed to try), how the spammers were caught who didn't make a post (or even try to make a post)?lol, my lips are sealed..-mouser (October 26, 2014, 08:21 PM)-lanux128 (October 26, 2014, 11:54 PM)
