[rheffern]

I'll hop on here in a vain hope too.

I want to buy a Theranos Edison machine and am willing to pay. If you know anyone that has one, parts of one, or anything like that, my email is in my bio and I am very happy to talk to you.

I intend to take a small portion of it, melt it into steel ingots, and include it in 'Order of the Engineer' rings for myself and my colleagues who are also engineers.

We are looking for physical equipment in which engineers screwed up and the general public paid a high price for it, as a reminder to ourselves that our work is meaningful and is one of service to the people we serve with our efforts. If you know of any equipment that may fit that bill, I am looking to pay for that too.

[sharkweek]

Maybe a very long shot but in an earlier thread from a year or so ago about a similar topic, this HN user mentioned being in a Theranos facility during liquidation: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29791488

Perhaps they’d be a good first step.

Good luck, that’d be a hell of a find.

[rheffern]

Thanks!

[Arcuru]

I can't help but that sounds awesome.

I'm curious, have you already made any rings or are you still looking for the right equipment?

[rheffern]

The rings are given out by the OotE.

We've not been able to source any 'failures' outside of some fragments of the space shuttles that fell on people's land.

We're looking to get as many failures as we can before melting down out rings, casting in the debris in appropriate masses and compositions (they still needs to be steel rings at the end), and then reforging/casting the rings for all of us, with enough of an ingot left over to continue the process as 'failures' continue onward.

It's entirely symbolic, but does take effort and time.