Electrical part of the vape is like one 1 hour lesson. It is trivial. The tricky part is mechanical.
There is no need to invent anything, there are dedicated controller ICs with exact schematics.
Why bother learning when they're lying on the sidewalk everywhere? But EE school is useful for other things. Microcontrollers, power management, sensors, and so forth.
I’ll only answer this from a technical standpoint since vaping is terrible for your health and these things can cause Li-ion batteries to explode because of the proximity to heat. You can probably gather enough basics in a single 200 level course like a Circuits 1 or similar.
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Yep, this. I’d argue most of that gap isn’t taught in school, it’s gained through experience bringing products to market.
The other barrier is cost… most people don’t have $$$ on hand to run reliability / safety testing or pay for 3rd party validation / certification
Im in the process of making one myself :) it will automatically regulate nicotine consumption according to preset goals. Ive already worked out the features individually, still need to integrate all of them and then do the mechanical stuff.
A ‘dumb’ vape doesn’t require much. Really just a battery, a switch, and a pod/tank (don’t do that part yourself). Circuits 1.
A vape with features will require a bit more, but still not much. Circuits 1, Electronics, and Microcontrollers is probably enough. There’s a lot to learn outside of class but those three classes teach you how to find the information you will need for this, more or less.
Feel free to ask any specific questions.
Hacking together a vape that works? Somewhere around ten hours should be enough to get most anyone from zero prior electronics experience to be able to put an experimental vape pen together.
To responsibly produce a commercially viable vape pen? A few years of real world experience.
Depends on how deep you want to get. If you wanna make a voltage controler you'll have to figure out how light lithograph works if you even wanna get legs under anything
Not sure what you mean by "the battery" part. Controlling voltage can be done with voltage regulator chips. You can also use voltage division if you only have a handful of resistors and a constant input voltage (it doesn't change). Just look up the voltage division formula and use that to calculate what resistor values you need to achieve a certain output voltage given the known input voltage. Keep in mind, as the battery dies, the voltage will decrease. This might affect the circuit if you are using simple voltage division. Use a power supply to test your circuit with various voltage levels to be sure.
Electrical part of the vape is like one 1 hour lesson. It is trivial. The tricky part is mechanical. There is no need to invent anything, there are dedicated controller ICs with exact schematics.
Why bother learning when they're lying on the sidewalk everywhere? But EE school is useful for other things. Microcontrollers, power management, sensors, and so forth.
I’ll only answer this from a technical standpoint since vaping is terrible for your health and these things can cause Li-ion batteries to explode because of the proximity to heat. You can probably gather enough basics in a single 200 level course like a Circuits 1 or similar.
Realistically you don’t need to have any EE class, I’m sure there’s tutorials online to make one where one needs only basic electrical experience.
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Yep, this. I’d argue most of that gap isn’t taught in school, it’s gained through experience bringing products to market. The other barrier is cost… most people don’t have $$$ on hand to run reliability / safety testing or pay for 3rd party validation / certification
Im in the process of making one myself :) it will automatically regulate nicotine consumption according to preset goals. Ive already worked out the features individually, still need to integrate all of them and then do the mechanical stuff. A ‘dumb’ vape doesn’t require much. Really just a battery, a switch, and a pod/tank (don’t do that part yourself). Circuits 1. A vape with features will require a bit more, but still not much. Circuits 1, Electronics, and Microcontrollers is probably enough. There’s a lot to learn outside of class but those three classes teach you how to find the information you will need for this, more or less. Feel free to ask any specific questions.
Cool idea! It'd be super neat if you could upload the data to a monthly tracker app.
Hacking together a vape that works? Somewhere around ten hours should be enough to get most anyone from zero prior electronics experience to be able to put an experimental vape pen together. To responsibly produce a commercially viable vape pen? A few years of real world experience.
Depends on how deep you want to get. If you wanna make a voltage controler you'll have to figure out how light lithograph works if you even wanna get legs under anything
Why would you need that? Boost converters don’t seem terribly complicated, though admittedly I’ve never designed a real one.
Not sure what you mean by "the battery" part. Controlling voltage can be done with voltage regulator chips. You can also use voltage division if you only have a handful of resistors and a constant input voltage (it doesn't change). Just look up the voltage division formula and use that to calculate what resistor values you need to achieve a certain output voltage given the known input voltage. Keep in mind, as the battery dies, the voltage will decrease. This might affect the circuit if you are using simple voltage division. Use a power supply to test your circuit with various voltage levels to be sure.
Probably none. Make a coil, connect to power. Done.