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Adam Savage's One Day Builds: Refrigerated Cooling Suit!

Adam Savage’s Tested · 1.5M views · 2020-04-01 · 1:07:08

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Overview

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.

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Brought up whenever wearable cooling or heat extremes come up, as a real worked example of a pumped-coolant cooling suit.

Recommended by 1 HN people across 1 months · HN mentions 2020–2023

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3D printing, CNC & maker projectsMechanical & precision engineering
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PTOB · 2020-07 · Recommendation

Pre-Covid, Adam Savage built a portable condensing/evap cooling system using an old Soviet flight suit. He teamed up with an engineer to make it happen. Fascinating design/build video. [VIDEO]

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hotpotamus · 2023-05 · Reference

Adam Savage built such a suit though it was not solar powered. He used it for cosplaying in oppressive heat and the AC was an upgrade over using ice. [VIDEO]

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krisoft · 2023-01 · Reference

> Some kind of backpack with a fluid pump, heater-cooler unit, and battery Like Adam Savage’s cooling suit: [VIDEO]

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