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Originally Posted by JLarson
What kind of work do you do? And what's going on at your place that's giving you the signal to get out?
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Simply put, I'm an electronics technician... I fix crap that runs on arcs & sparks & ones & zeros....
Here I've been building, testing, installing & servicing a device that teaches preemies how to suck. It basically has an electric motor that drives an air cylinder to pulse a pacifier in a pattern the brain recognizes.
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Innara Health
The issues are what are typically found in startups... great idea, great device, never enough money to build a smaller device. The current one is a full size cart that has a 21" iMac on it, with an overly large enclosure to hold the pneumatic generator, the control device (cRIO by National Instruments), a circuit board and some wire. Space in the NICU is at a premium, there really isn't enough room to have that big of a machine in there. The device needs to be just about shoebox size, mounted on the wall and accessed via Bluetooth from a laptop or tablet.
This is currently the third time we've been wondering if we are going to get any more $$$ to keep going, they seem to be waiting for a possible IPO that may happen either 4th Q this year or 1st Q next year. I've done one install this year, the first in several months and right now, I have 5 systems done and nothing pending for the remainder of the year......
TBH, there's not much I can't do... hell, I spent 20 years in Uncle Sam's Misguided Children...