@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! Let alone, 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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