Face it, we’ve all been there, in a crowded workshop building something, and horror of horrors, things are going to get a little… windy. Do you try to drop it quietly and hope nobody says the rhyme, do you bolt for the door, or can you tough it out and hold it in? Never fear, because [Roman_2798881] has got your back, with the FartMaster 3000.
No doubt born of urgent necessity, it’s a discreet wall-mounted fixture for a shop vac line which allows a casual activation of the shopvac as if some sawdust needed removing, and backing up for a safe disposal of any noxious clouds under cover of the vacuum’s whirring.
We have to admit, this one gave us something of a chuckle when we saw it in the Printables feed, but on closer inspection it’s a real device that by our observation could have been useful in more than one hackerspace of our acquaintance. There’s a square funnel in front of a piece of ducting, with a rotary valve to divert the vacuum in an appropriate direction to conceal the evidence.
Then simply turn it back to straight through, vac your pretend sawdust, and nobody’s the wiser. Unless of course, you also integrated a fart-o-meter.
I do hope we get a boatload of things like this on March 32nd: Real devices that sound like jokes.
There is a methane capture device for cows, which embodies the true mobility of this kind of device, thus I suggest a similar developement for the current subject. Also if you can burn the captured gases, you’ll have heating for the price of one can of beans per user per day. Sure, some scented candels can be used both as a starting flame and also to enhance the general smell of the enclosed space. And of corse, in the summer all windows and doors can be opened to provide a steady fresh air source.
Make sure your shop vac is a spark proof model.
Initially I thought this would just mix the gases and diffuse it to the air. But fresh sawdust might potentially work to absorb some organic compounds. Maybe it could even work for filtering of laser cutter exhaust?
We have to wear co detectors at work. If you “drop a silent one” and the detector is near you get an applause through a loud beeper end a free light show from the warning LED’s. It was quite fun in the beginning and had not thought about the detector. Imagine you where in a breefing and one starts to give an alarm followed by a collegue (male and female!) whose head is turning red, priceless. Since then these are dubbed “scheetjes melder”, fart detectors.
Is it a CO or a CO+TVOC detector? I assume it’s the last one. That one can spike heavily after eating beans or spicy food.
We have H2S sensors and there are people trying to play games with them by seeing who can get the highest score.
Scheetjes melder is a very kind and adorable way to write it. I would have called it a ruftmeter.
If i am correct it is a honeywell single gas co detector; https://www.globaltestsupply.com/product/bw-bwc3r-m2050-carbon-monoxide-gas-detector?gad_source=1&gclid=Cj0KCQiA4fi7BhC5ARIsAEV1Yia-ljGsWYVrk8wGsbMPQCQAUCyHtCGqSkYLBaQMAN7KzfP4SPHsHDcaAgAwEALw_wcB
Ruftmeter is also a nice name for it :-)
Unfortunately, some of the guys (they don’t call them old farts for nothing!) at the makerspace take pride in their gaseous discharges and never attempt to hide them from others, often using them to punctuate their statements about almost any conversational subject you might be foolish enough to engage them in.
You could also have a makerspace contest.
https://www.oldradio.org/2014/06/1946-great-crepitation-fart-contest.html
The exhaust side needs a Prop 65 warning in my state.
Good idea. Tattoo it on the butt of every baby born in California, as a cautionary tale of “be careful what you vote for”. Doubleplus extra for Santa Catalina Island.
the smell can be undesirable and even rude but this attempt to mask the smell also seems like it would mask the much-beloved auditory signature. trade offs.
In high school we used a lighter to ignite farts and there are some unexpected side effects. It’s a flammable gas so I hope the shopvac does not do that, arcing brushes included but the mixture should be too lean.
One guy tried it over a candle and I think it was just his uh hair that burned. You need to be wearing clothes or at least undies. Clothes usually start a lint fire which is OK, if it stays away from your hair on your head.
Point is- combustion eliminates the stink, total payoff after eating that cheap pizza.
Reminds me of a bad joke involving a philosopher, a mathematician and a flatulent blonde who die and have to outsmart the devil to get into heaven. The punchline is “You’re an idiot, Devil! It came out of my butthole!”
Let’s pronounce it now, far-tom-a-ter. Now that sounds nicer. It displays one to five red raspberries on it’s little yellow screen.
One of those inventions that almost definitely has a bit of a story behind it…
what is a fart? like fartcoin?