Refrigerators and Robots with Amitabh Shrivastava

Welcome Amitabh Shrivastava of Refrigediro.org and Tinkrmind!

• Amitabh moved from Physics into Engineering. He did an internship at Brandeis for astophysics and radio astronomy and realized astrophysics mostly coding these days.
• Kit for teaching teachers in India
• There was a limited Electronics scene in India. Amitabh grew up in Bangalore (Bengaluru)
• Manufacturing in India has been growing, including in the silicon space. Chris used to work at a place that had a CM in Bangalore.
• Gaming startup making tag games using LoRa
• XBee
• Logistics company that tracked 2 wheelers. Their breakout product was a laser scanner for packages.
• Amitabh went to ITP at NYU, which is a technology and art crossover program. Past guest of the show Matt Richardson also went there.
• Creative aspects vs technical aspects.
• Amitabh enjoyed consulting for other artist, much like past guests Mike Harrison and Todd Bailey discussed.
• Programmable Air is a kit that allows people to more easily build soft robots and use pumps.
• Chris and Amitabh met at Teardown 2019. That was also the event where Chris recorded with Joshua and Zach, before recording again this year.
• A "jammer gripper" is a soft robot that allows you to pick up arbitrarily shaped objects using friction.
• "Backpack inflatable car" from Otherlab
• Open Source Project
• Programmable Air was crowdfunded on Crowd Supply. As such, it's still available on Mouser.
• The valves in the kit were meant for keurig machines. Spec sheets are super basic for mechanical components.
• Chris saw Amitabh at Supercon 22 wearing a backpack refrigerator. It's called "Refrigediro"
• Amitabh gave a talk about the project at Hackaday Supercon 2022
• The source of the name is "Harry potter and the methods of rational thinking"
• Refrigeration is an old industry
• PV=nRT
• Kipp Bradford and Adam Savage video on building tiny refrigeration.
• Other uses for small scale refrigeration is vaccine storage, cold chain storage.
• Ammonia refrigeration allows you to keep things cold with a fire.
• Gradient window cooler is a heat pump with a cool form factor. Not shipping yet though?
• Modding an icemaker
• Follow Amitabh on Instagram or YouTube for his latest experiments and builds. Follow him most places as "Tinkrmind"