Developing countries might look towards this $2 contraption to help safe lives. From what we can gather, it’s simply a piece of tubing attached to the end of a manual egg-beater and spins fast enough to separate the blood enough for Hepatitis B and cysticercosis tests. A user can even do multiple blood tests by taping more tubes to the beater. It just goes to show that a little ingenuity can go a long way. Maybe next time, somebody will produce an atom smasher from a meat tenderizer. Yeah. There isn’t anything like tender atoms. Hmmm.
They have an atom smasher already. Its called the LHC. I haven’t seen a price but i would guess the egg-beater would be a cheaper toy.
They have an atom smasher already. Its called the LHC. I haven’t seen a price but i would guess the egg-beater would be a cheaper toy.
I liked the centrifuge Bruce Banner had when he was in Brazil. Maybe it wouldn’t be $2 though but it would let you centrifuge more samples at a time.
Ball bearings, a bike chain and the pedals and some elbow grease to make it (and maybe help from DIYers to develop a prototype and from people who know about centrifuges for the math so it speeds correctly) and you have something bigger if and where all this things are available.
Great work!