After testing our early ventilator concept, we made the call - we would go with a turbine-based design. But now came the hard part. We had to pack it into a proper enclosure. A Croatian designer helped us create the look, but it was on us to turn that vision into something that could actually be manufactured.
That meant sleepless nights with SolidWorks open on one screen and hardware specs on the other. We had to figure out how to make everything fit. Board. Display. Turbine. Valves. Sensors. Connectors. Every single part had to be re-evaluated, reduced, and rearranged. And somehow still leave space for airflow, safety, and maintenance.
This is where engineering becomes art. You need to be creative, not in theory, but in practice. Real creativity is solving ten impossible problems at once, with limited time and limited tools. I know I’m a problem solver. That mindset helped me through personal challenges, and it’s also what lets me deliver solutions that work for our users and clients.
While we were finalizing the mechanical design, we also started working on the first concept for the main controller board. It had to handle more than anyone expected from a single PCB: sensors, safety systems, interfaces, data logging, and communications. It was one of the most complex boards we had ever laid out.
We started building. And in the next story, I’ll show you what that looked like.
