Comments on: Surgical Skill http://globalgeek.thepodcastnetwork.com/2008/06/14/surgical-skill/ Everything tech, from Web2.0 blogging, the internet to product reviews and software. Fri, 21 Nov 2008 13:25:28 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: The all important Doug http://globalgeek.thepodcastnetwork.com/2008/06/14/surgical-skill/#comment-110197 The all important Doug Mon, 16 Jun 2008 07:00:02 +0000 http://globalgeek.thepodcastnetwork.com/?p=406#comment-110197 Impressive!! Impressive!!

]]> By: John McGuinness http://globalgeek.thepodcastnetwork.com/2008/06/14/surgical-skill/#comment-110155 John McGuinness Sun, 15 Jun 2008 22:17:13 +0000 http://globalgeek.thepodcastnetwork.com/?p=406#comment-110155 Oh yeah, I used to work in the R&D dept of a place that manufactured NC tool grinders. The machines made these cutting tools that looked like fancy drill bits down to a size of about 0.4mm overall diameter. Impressive ? naaah not when you consider that some of the tolerences on those tools were 3 micron or 3/1000th of a millimeter. The most impressiver thing however was the degree of mechanical prescision (they were built by hand !!) and the 100,000 odd lines of code used to run it !!! Comissioning them was a nightmare. the machines had 9 axes it could use including 5 'hard' axes (X,Y,Z,x1 & C) with the remaining 4 being 'soft' (software) axes which where compound axes made up of 2 or more of the hard axes. the machine had to be aware of the relative positioning of all of the parts at any given moment so as to prevent collision and to enhance accuracy. Your davinci machine would have to do at least this. J Oh yeah,
I used to work in the R&D dept of a place that manufactured NC tool grinders. The machines made these cutting tools that looked like fancy drill bits down to a size of about 0.4mm overall diameter. Impressive ? naaah not when you consider that some of the tolerences on those tools were 3 micron or 3/1000th of a millimeter.

The most impressiver thing however was the degree of mechanical prescision (they were built by hand !!) and the 100,000 odd lines of code used to run it !!!

Comissioning them was a nightmare.

the machines had 9 axes it could use including 5 ‘hard’ axes (X,Y,Z,x1 & C) with the remaining 4 being ’soft’ (software) axes which where compound axes made up of 2 or more of the hard axes.

the machine had to be aware of the relative positioning of all of the parts at any given moment so as to prevent collision and to enhance accuracy.

Your davinci machine would have to do at least this.

J

]]> By: John McGuinness http://globalgeek.thepodcastnetwork.com/2008/06/14/surgical-skill/#comment-110152 John McGuinness Sun, 15 Jun 2008 21:47:10 +0000 http://globalgeek.thepodcastnetwork.com/?p=406#comment-110152 My ex Wife is a Theatre nurse, I might send her a link to this. Back in the days where we still liked each other she was living with a workmate. I went round for dinner at their place one night. All went well until they started to talk shop !! Believe me folks, nothing puts a non medical person off their meatloaf like a detailed discussion about putting 'k' wires into hands. J My ex Wife is a Theatre nurse,
I might send her a link to this.

Back in the days where we still liked each other she was living with a workmate. I went round for dinner at their place one night. All went well until they started to talk shop !!

Believe me folks, nothing puts a non medical person off their meatloaf like a detailed discussion about putting ‘k’ wires into hands.

J

]]> By: Global Geek http://globalgeek.thepodcastnetwork.com/2008/06/14/surgical-skill/#comment-110062 Global Geek Sun, 15 Jun 2008 04:38:20 +0000 http://globalgeek.thepodcastnetwork.com/?p=406#comment-110062 @Matt lucky that I don't do the operating :) I am the one that sets up stuff like this and assists as the procedure is carried out - so for me - always a job :) The one thing I can say about Lap surgery is that they make it look very easy - it ain't. @Matt lucky that I don’t do the operating :) I am the one that sets up stuff like this and assists as the procedure is carried out - so for me - always a job :)

The one thing I can say about Lap surgery is that they make it look very easy - it ain’t.

]]> By: Matt http://globalgeek.thepodcastnetwork.com/2008/06/14/surgical-skill/#comment-110045 Matt Sat, 14 Jun 2008 23:26:13 +0000 http://globalgeek.thepodcastnetwork.com/?p=406#comment-110045 When I was watching it I didn't think that it was that impressive - that was until the end when I saw the scale of the crane. Looks like you'll be out of a job in the future. When I was watching it I didn’t think that it was that impressive - that was until the end when I saw the scale of the crane.

Looks like you’ll be out of a job in the future.

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