@Lana

Automated surgery is amazing - it's allowed physicians everywhere to have an almost entirely hands-off approach to suturing, and in some cases, reduces time while increasing consistency. But there's a catch... IT'S EXPENSIVE! Not to mention, the bulk and massive learning curve that comes with it, robotic surgery is restricted to fancy hospitals. After working on developing knotless sutures for years in science fairs, I realized that I completely forgot to address efficiency and accessibility, so I developed a solution that had (almost) every environment in mind - yes, even space. The SuturePunch is a 3D printed manually-operated device inspired by the mechanisms of punch needling and cobbling, and designed to be loaded in advance to reduce prep-time. This extension project will work on evaluating design flaws and making adjustments to simplify use. Notably, how to create a non-automated anchor extrusion mechanism.

First (kinda?) devlog, so excuse the minimal info - I'm fairly new to programming, but very familiar with CAD, so I decided to begin with one of the Hackclub sample projects to get acquainted. I thought the macropad would be a great start...with a little twist. I'm certain someone has done this already, but I wanted to make a macropad with really useless, stupid shortcuts/ does exactly what you don't want it to do. I'm considering having one shortcut be "run all programs" - (would really value advice on how to do that), but I'm trying to think of ideas for the other buttons. The current script is AI generated (just to get a sense of what I might like it to do) - I decided to try a "close all tabs" function, but I feel like that's a bit too useful. If you have any worse ideas - design or program wise - please make sure to send them my way!

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