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Been aware of the general idea for a long time, but had no idea that strapping HEPA filters to a fan has a fancy name.
You have to cut some cardboard and use tape too. After when your solution beat every commercial solution you are allowed to name it, just to be able to shame corpo easily.
from huppakke:
Someone posted a link to Wikipedia in the comments, came across their names:
Richard Corsi, an environmental engineer and the incoming Dean of Engineering at the University of California, Davis
Jim Rosenthal, the CEO of filter manufacturer Tex-Air Filters
take what you will from this, but it's definitely not a stick-it-to-the-corp kinda thing
Yeah I was trying a joke. It still beat commercial alternatives which I fell is a Second good reason to give it a name.
Could use those circular filters stacked on each other and a fan at the top. Name it my column.
Didgeridoo air filter is also tempting me now.
Dongderidong air filter ?