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A project log for Individualised nasal CPAP cannula for preterm kids

Preterm infants come in lots of different sizes. Nasal CPAP cannula come in few sizes. Read on to see if we can 3D print a solution.

ben-hartmannBen Hartmann 08/17/2015 at 08:160 Comments

So to customise the template we could either spend years trying to work out how to extract measurements of the diameter of the baby's nares (nostrils) and width of the nasal septum (spacing of the nostrils) from a 3D scan, or we could just measure them.

We figured to get some hacking cred for the project we should send the measurements from some digital caliper direct to the sketch.

Turns out we didn't earn any cred because this project worked straight out of the box with our calipers.

Video below shows it in action...sending a value to a processing sketch template - the code for which will follow. Got no idea about Github so I might just Dropbox these for now.

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