No Blower Fit My Wife's Mattress Topper, So I Built One
My wife's airflow mattress topper needed a blower to push air through its channels and remove moisture from her skin. But no commercial blower fit what I had built. So I designed and built one from scratch - from fan selection and noise engineering to industrial design and vacuum-cast housing. This is the story of how a custom blower went from concept to a device that now travels to every hospital stay. If you have not read about the mattress topper itself, start with the previous post about why and how I built it . For the full backstory of my wife's diagnosis, see Part 1 , Part 2 , and Part 3 of The Engineer Caregiver series. In the previous post, I described the airflow mattress topper I built for my wife. The topper creates air channels beneath her body to remove moisture from her skin. But the topper alone is only half the system. Without a blower to push air through those channels, it is just a piece of foam and fabric. I could not find a commercial blower that was...