Adam Savage's One Day Builds: Refrigerated Cooling Suit!
What it is
Adam Savage and engineer Kipp Bradford build a compact wearable refrigeration system to keep Adam cool under costumes, modeled on the cooling unit in a NASA spacesuit simulator. It is a long, hands-on build session.
Why Hacker News recommends it
Brought up whenever wearable cooling or heat extremes come up, as a real worked example of a pumped-coolant cooling suit.
- 1 people recommended it
- 1 different months
- 0 strong recommendations
- first 2020, last 2023
What HN commenters said
“Fascinating design/build video.”
Adam Savage builds a portable cooling suit with an engineer.
PTOB, 2020-07 · Recommendation · in “Sony’s wearable air conditioner is pretty cool”
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Topics: cooling suit, refrigeration, adam savage, cosplay, maker
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