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Gas sensor "grenade" that may save lives instead of taking them. The sensor can be thrown into dangerous areas to remotely report levels

eric-wiiliamEric Wiiliam 07/14/2015 at 21:554 Comments

Lately I haven't had the time to so much work on the project (I'm getting married in under 2 weeks) so I decided to ask around a few people on what they thought of the idea. As I know a few people in industry which this project targets I firgured getting some feedback would be great.

Opinions on the gas sensor were fantastic. As I expected it was well received. What I didn't toally expect was the slight "reprimands" for not taking this to market and filing patents etc. I've explained to a few people that without others providing design and code "open source" I would not have been able to do such projects. I don't think this was fully understood by most :)

I guess those outside the open-source community will never fully embrace the fact that giving things away is "normal" and needed to support growth. I actually didn't mind a scolding for this- must mean they think the project has merit :)

More updates soon. Feedback on the project and code always appreciated. Cheers!

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Jeremy Lambert wrote 07/15/2015 at 14:00 point

message me when you get some time. the fire department is interested in an LPG version to detect gas leaks (leak/no leak...no ppm) more than the CO. 

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Eric Wiiliam wrote 07/15/2015 at 21:03 point

Well it already includes LPG so you could just remove the other value playbacks if you really wanted.

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Jeremy Lambert wrote 07/14/2015 at 22:09 point

they don't get it.  it's ok.

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Eric Wiiliam wrote 07/15/2015 at 13:44 point

Agree fully :)  

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