Publications
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Peer-Reviewed Publications
| Topic | Name | Citation |
|---|---|---|
| Math/Robotics | Calculating the Segmented Helix Formed by Repetitions of Identical Subunits thereby Generating a Zoo of Platonic Helices | Read, Robert L. "Calculating the Segmented Helix Formed by Repetitions of Identical Subunits thereby Generating a Zoo of Platonic Helices." Mathematics 10.14 (2022): 2533. https://www.mdpi.com/2227-7390/10/14/2533 |
| Math/Robotics | Calculating the Segmented Helix Formed by Repetitions of Identical Subunits | Read, Robert L. "Calculating the Segmented Helix Formed by Repetitions of Identical Subunits." IMA Conference on Mathematics of Robotics. Springer, Cham, 2020. https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-91352-6_12 |
| Open Source Topics/Healthcare Technology/Ventilator Crisis/Humanitarian/COVID-19/Supply Chain | Open-source Hardware and the Great Ventilator Rush of 2020 | Read, Robert L. "Erich B Schulz, MBBS, MBA, FANZCA.", Ben Coombs. Open-source hardware and the great ventilator rush of 2020. Australasian Anaesthesia 1 (2021): 36. https://www.anzca.edu.au/resources/college-publications/australasian-anaesthesia-(the-blue-book)/blue-book-2021.pdf#page=18 |
| Open Source Topics/Healthcare Technology/Ventilator Crisis/Humanitarian/COVID-19/Ventilator Designs | VentMon: An Open Source Inline Ventilator Tester and Monitor | Read, Robert L., Lauria Clarke, and Geoff Mulligan. "VentMon: An open source inline ventilator tester and monitor." HardwareX 9 (2021): e00195. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ohx.2021.e00195 |
| Math/Robotics/MechE | Controlling a Variable Geometry Truss Tetrobot With an Isomorphic Puppet Controller. | Read, Robert L., and Avinash Baskaran. "Controlling a variable geometry truss tetrobot with an isomorphic puppet controller." 2020 2nd International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Robotics and Control. 2020. https://doi.org/10.1145/3448326.3448332 |
| Healthcare Technology/Ventilator Crisis/Humanitarian/COVID-19/Ventilator Designs/Pulmonary Designs | The Importance of Characterising Dynamic Response and Inertia in Potential Rapidly Manufactured Ventilator Systems | Schulz, Erich B., and Robert L. Read. "The importance of characterising dynamic response and inertia in potential rapidly manufactured ventilator systems." Anaesthesia (2020). https://associationofanaesthetists-publications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/anae.15190 |
| Math/Robotics | Transforming Optimal Tetrahelices Between the Boerdijk–Coxeter Helix and a Planar-Faced Tetrahelix | Read, Robert L. "Transforming Optimal Tetrahelices Between the Boerdijk–Coxeter Helix and a Planar-Faced Tetrahelix." Journal of Mechanisms and Robotics 10.5 (2018): 051001. https://doi.org/10.1115/1.4040433 |
| MechE/Humanitarian/Microbiology/Incubator | The Design and Usage of a Portable Incubator for Inexpensive In-field Water Analysis | Heligman, Brian T., Alice Zhao, Evan Bartilson, Abhay Gupta, Joshua Hannan, Maimouna Diop, and Robert L. Read. "The design and usage of a portable incubator for inexpensive in-field water analysis." Journal of Humanitarian Engineering 6, no. 2 (2018). https://doi.org/10.36479/jhe.v6i2.127 |
| Hardware/Electrical Engineering | General Purpose Alarm Device: A programmable annunciator | https://www.hardware-x.com/article/S2468-0672(24)00084-1/fulltext |
| microfluidics/pumps/valves/MechE | A Novel Passive Ferrofluid One-way (Check) Valve | A Novel Passive Ferrofluid One-way (Check) Valve. Veronica Stuckey and Robert L. Read. March, 2022. https://engrxiv.org/preprint/view/2242 |
| Social Impact/Community/Maker Movement/Humanitarian | How to Start a Public Invention and Humanitarian Engineering Club at Your University | How to Start a Public Invention and Humanitarian Engineering Club at Your University. Robert L. Read, Joshua M. Pearce, Avinash Baskaran, Megan Cadena, Sabia Abidi. August, 2021. https://robertleeread.medium.com/how-to-start-a-public-invention-and-humanitarian-engineering-club-at-your-university-e9fe42065c83 |
| CS/Coding/Mapping | Geotagtext, A Tutorial: A Free Geotagging Web Application Composed of Free Tools | Geotagtext, A Tutorial: A Free Geotagging Web Application Composed of Free Tools, Robert L. Read, Diego Aspinwall, and Neil Martis. July 2021 https://medium.com/nerd-for-tech/geotagtext-a-tutorial-a-free-geotagging-web-application-composed-of-free-tools-b42bcbcca202 |
| Humanitarian/COVID-19/Social Impact Writing | The Humanitarian Engineering and Free-libre Open Source Pandemic Response Organizations | The Humanitarian Engineering and Free-libre Open Source Pandemic Response Organizations. Robert L. Read, February 2021. https://robertleeread.medium.com/the-humanitarian-engineering-free-libre-open-source-pandemic-response-organizations-6dd3c7f0299a |
| Humanitarian/COVID-19/Social Impact Writing | The Humanitarian Engineering Response to the Pandemic: The New Year's Mid-game | The Humanitarian Engineering Response to the Pandemic: The New Year's Mid-game. Robert L. Read, January, 2021. https://medium.com/public-invention/the-humanitarian-engineering-response-to-the-pandemic-the-new-years-mid-game-ff99d296a1a6 |
| COVID-19/VentCon/Humanitarian Writings | Vent-Con 2020: An Open Source Ventilator Conference | Vent-Con 2020: An Open Source Ventilator Conference. Robert L. Read. May 2020. https://robertleeread.medium.com/vent-con-2020-an-open-source-ventilator-conference-19879c53cca4 |
| COVID-19/Supply-Chain/Humanitarian Writings | Modular Design in the Ventilator Crisis: Why it Matters | Modular Design in the Ventilator Crisis: Why it Matters. Robert L. Read and Jenny Filipetti. April 2020. https://robertleeread.medium.com/modular-design-in-the-ventilator-crisis-why-it-matters-ff767c420b70 |
| COVID-19/Ventilator Designs | An Intelligent Bag-squeezer for COVID-19 Open Source Ventilators and Why it Matters | An Intelligent Bag-squeezer for COVID-19 Open Source Ventilators and Why it Matters. Robert L. Read. April 2020. https://robertleeread.medium.com/an-intelligent-bag-squeezer-for-covid-19-open-source-ventilators-and-why-it-matters-6585ec2843ed |
| COVID-19/Pulmonary Designs/Ventilator Designs | How to Make Your Own Accurate Test Lungs for Testing Emergency Ventilators | How to Make Your Own Accurate Test Lungs for Testing Emergency Ventilators. Alex Izvorski and Robert L. Read. April 2020.https://robertleeread.medium.com/how-to-make-your-own-accurate-test-lungs-for-testing-emergency-ventilators-2d68fe5ac460 |
| COVID-19/Pulmonary Designs/Ventilator Designs | Pandemic Ventilators Should Support Spontaneous Breathing | Pandemic Ventilators Should Support Spontaneous Breathing. Erich B. Schulz and Robert L. Read. April 2020. https://robertleeread.medium.com/pandemic-ventilators-should-support-spontaneous-breathing-77d991f2e11d |
| COVID-19/Supply-Chain/Humanitarian Writings/Pulmonary Designs/Ventilator Designs | The Pandemic Demands Modularizing the Open Source Ventilator Problem. | The Pandemic Demands Modularizing the Open Source Ventilator Problem. Robert L. Read and Nariman Poushin. April 2020. https://robertleeread.medium.com/the-pandemic-demands-modularizing-the-open-source-ventilator-problem-b20bc41e66ff |
| COVID-19/Supply-Chain/Humanitarian Writings/Pulmonary Designs/Ventilator Designs | A Quick Comparison of the AmboVent and Apollo BVM Pandemic Ventilators. | A Quick Comparison of the AmboVent and Apollo BVM Pandemic Ventilators. Robert L. Read, April 2020. https://robertleeread.medium.com/a-quick-comparison-of-the-ambovent-and-apollo-bvm-pandemic-ventilators-977d15345440 |
| COVID-19/Pulmonary Designs/Ventilator Designs | Medtronic Open-source Ventilator does not meet UK's Rapidly Manufactured Ventilator System Standard | Medtronic Open-source Ventilator does not meet UK's Rapidly Manufactured Ventilator System Standard. Robert L. Read, April 2020. https://robertleeread.medium.com/medtronic-open-source-ventilator-does-not-meet-uks-rapidly-manufactured-ventilator-systems-81947c72a7ac |
| COVID-19/Pulmonary Designs/Ventilator Designs/Humanitarian Writings | The Open Source Ventilator Game Has Changed: AmboVent and Medtronic COVID-19 Ventilators Open Sourced | The Open Source Ventilator Game Has Changed: AmboVent and Medtronic COVID-19 Ventilators Open Sourced. Robert L. Read, April 2020. https://robertleeread.medium.com/the-open-source-ventilator-game-has-changed-ambovent-and-medtronic-covid-19-ventilators-open-d645bde594cc |
| COVID-19/Pulmonary Designs/Ventilator Designs | Open Source Validation Tests for Open Source COVID-19 Emergency Ventilators. | Open Source Validation Tests for Open Source COVID-19 Emergency Ventilators. Robert L. Read, Nariman Poushin, and Juan E. Villacres Perez, March, 2020. https://robertleeread.medium.com/open-source-validation-tests-for-open-source-covid-19-emergency-ventilators-7096c6393d61 |
| COVID-19/Supply-Chain/Humanitarian Writings/Ventilator Designs | Analysis of Open Source COVID-19 Pandemic Ventilator Projects | Analysis of Open Source COVID-19 Pandemic Ventilator Projects. Robert L. Read, Keeshan Patel, and Nariman Poushin. March 2020. https://robertleeread.medium.com/analysis-of-open-source-covid-19-pandemic-ventilator-projects-27acf9075f7e |
| COVID-19/Pulmonary Designs/Ventilator Designs/Humanitarian Writings | The State of Open Source Ventilator Projects as of March 21st | The State of Open Source Ventilator Projects as of March 21st. March, 2020. Robert L. Read, Nariman Poushin, Keeshan Patel, Stacey Oliver Sarris and Andrea Ippolito. https://robertleeread.medium.com/the-state-of-open-source-ventilator-projects-as-of-march-21st-1f36bfb608b4 |
| COVID-19/Pulmonary Designs/Ventilator Designs/STEM Education | The PolyVent educational platform: An open mechanical ventilation platform for research and education | https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2468067224001093 |
| Girls in STEM/Social Impact/Community | Introduce a Girl to Engineering Day: A Fun Chance to Promote Your Organization | Introduce a Girl to Engineering Day: A Fun Chance to Promote Your Organization. Robert L. Read, September 2019. https://robertleeread.medium.com/introduce-a-girl-to-engineering-day-a-fun-chance-to-promote-your-organization-e85a5042f974 |
| Social/Antro/Philosophical/Humanities | What to do when you hear about your idea: "That's been done..." | What to do when you hear about your idea: "That's been done...", Robert L. Read, July 2019. https://robertleeread.medium.com/what-to-do-when-you-hear-about-your-idea-thats-been-done-cf5d8cc2e015 |
| Software/Open Source Projects/CS/Psych | A UX Widget for Expressing Balance: Triad Balance | A UX Widget for Expressing Balance: Triad Balance. Robert L. Read, July 2019. https://uxdesign.cc/a-ux-widget-for-expressing-balance-1d294564a1c |
| Social Impact/Community/Maker Movement | How to Graduate from Maker to Public Inventor | How to Graduate from Maker to Public Inventor. Robert L. Read. July 2019. https://medium.com/hackernoon/maker-into-public-inventor-d337e155cb92 |
| Social/Antro/Philosophical/Humanities/Life | The Joy of Collaboration | The Joy of Collaboration. Robert L. Read, May 2019. https://medium.com/hackernoon/the-joy-of-collaboration-495e31916440 |
| Art/Humanities/Open Source Projects/Maker Movement | Public Invention Project #40: A Wheel for Painting Very Thin Lines | Public Invention Project #40: A Wheel for Painting Very Thin Lines. Robert L. Read, March 2019. https://medium.com/hackernoon/public-invention-project-40-a-wheel-for-painting-very-thin-lines-5d596c625549 |
| CS/Community/Life | Working through Sipser, a textbook on Theoretical Computer Science | Working through Sipser, a textbook on Theoretical Computer Science. Robert L. Read and John K. Gibbons. January 2019. https://medium.com/hackernoon/working-through-sipser-a-textbook-on-theoretical-computer-science-3ded71d7e72d |
| Call to Action/Open Source Projects/Maker Movement | 43 Public Invention Projects That Need You | 43 Public Invention Projects That Need You. Robert L. Read. January 2019.https://medium.com/hackernoon/43-public-invention-projects-that-need-you-a8e4e39130b4 |
| Open Source Projects/Maker Movement/CS/Software | The Story of a Public, Cooperative Mathathon | The Story of a Public, Cooperative Mathathon. Robert L. Read, December 2018. https://medium.com/hackernoon/the-story-of-a-public-cooperative-mathathon-29ea5f4ff538 |
| Social/Philosophical/Humanities/Maker Movement/Open Source Topics | A Disconnect between the Free Software Movement and Open Science | A Disconnect between the Free Software Movement and Open Science. Marc Jones and Robert L. Read. October 2018. https://medium.com/hackernoon/a-disconnect-between-the-free-software-movement-and-open-science-c5f0f0b408f2 |
| Social/Life/Call to Action/Open Source Topics/Open Source Projects/Math/Hackathon | Do Math Socially: The Mathathon | Do Math Socially: The Mathathon. Robert L. Read. September, 2018. https://medium.com/q-e-d/do-math-socially-the-mathathon-a375f8fdc319 |
| Social/Environmental Issues/Call to Action/Open Source Topics/Open Source Projects/CS/Software/Hackathon | Experience from the /earth hackathon for Project Drawdown | Experience from the /earth hackathon for Project Drawdown. Robert L. Read, 2018. https://medium.com/hackernoon/experience-from-the-code-earth-hackathon-for-project-drawdown-184e2a412e4b |
| Call to Action/Open Source Projects/Maker Movement/Open Source Topics/Social Impact/Community/Life | Mission of Public Invention, 2.0. September 2018 | Mission of Public Invention, 2.0. September 2018. Robert L. Read. https://medium.com/public-invention/mission-of-public-invention-2-0-46b5d2268db4 |
| Call to Action/Open Source Projects/Maker Movement/Open Source Topics/Social Impact/Community | Public Invention: Mission Statement, 2018 | Public Invention: Mission Statement, 2018. Robert L. Read. July 2018. https://medium.com/public-invention/public-invention-mission-statement-2018-3f5a8f7c5d60 |
| Call to Action/Open Source Projects/Maker Movement/Open Source Topics | Summer Projects 2018 | Summer Projects 2018. Robert L. Read. April 2019. https://medium.com/public-invention/summer-projects-2018-2c936bb032c7 |
| Call to Action/Open Source Projects/Maker Movement/Open Source Topics/Math/Software Tools & Resources for STEM/Philosophical | Fundamental Tools for Math in 2019 | Fundamental Tools for Math in 2019. Robert L. Read. March 2018. https://medium.com/q-e-d/fundamental-tools-for-math-in-2018-78739b86d15 |
| Education/Math/Community/Life/Personal Development | Math Every Morning | Math Every Morning. Robert L. Read. February 2018. https://medium.com/q-e-d/math-every-morning-a05aa72f235c |
| Call to Action/Open Source Projects/Maker Movement/Open Source Topics/microfluidics/pumps/valves/MechE/SoftRobotics | Failed Experiments with Ferrofluid | Failed Experiments with Ferrofluid. Robert L. Read. August 2017. https://medium.com/hackernoon/failed-experiments-with-ferrofluid-742fa13b0ae1 |
| Open Source Projects/Maker Movement/CS/Software/Open Source Topics/Social/Philosophical | A Brief, Bad, Ignorant Review of Existing Numerical Optimization Software in JavaScript, Further Weakened by Unvetted Philosophy and Opinions | A Brief, Bad, Ignorant Review of Existing Numerical Optimization Software in JavaScript, Further Weakened by Unvetted Philosophy and Opinions. Robert L. Read, 2017. https://robertleeread.medium.com/a-brief-bad-ignorant-review-of-existing-numerical-optimization-software-in-javascript-further-c70f68641fda |
| SoftRobotics/MechE/Open Source Projects/Open Source Topics/Call to Action/Maker Movement/Material Science | Project #33: 3D Print Soft Robotics with PVA Molds filled with Silicone | Project #33: 3D Print Soft Robotics with PVA Molds filled with Silicone. Robert L. Read, 2017. https://medium.com/public-invention/project-33-3d-print-soft-robotics-with-pva-molds-filled-with-silicone-bf04e79ce1ae |
| Call to Action/Open Source Projects/Maker Movement/Open Source Topics/MechE/Robotics/Community/Life/Math/CS/SoftRobotics | Summer Projects, 2017 | Summer Projects, 2017. Robert L. Read, April 2017. https://medium.com/public-invention/summer-projects-2017-cb11c18a4f0e |
| Open Source Projects/Maker Movement/CS/Software/Open Source Topics/Social/Philosophical | Human Centered Design vs. Agile Development: Adaptive Balance | Human Centered Design vs. Agile Development: Adaptive Balance. Robert L. Read. March 2017. https://medium.com/agile-government-leadership/human-centered-design-vs-agile-development-adaptive-balance-8fd51e652e4f |
| Open Source Projects/Maker Movement/CS/Software/Open Source Topics/Art/Philosophical/Humanities | Project #7: Color-block Font for Writing | Project #7: Color-block Font for Writing. Robert L. Read, 2017. https://medium.com/hackernoon/project-7-color-block-font-for-writing-6b51d716e0e4 |
| Open Source Projects/Maker Movement/Open Source Topics/Philosophical/Humanitarian/Community/Social Impact | Become A Public Inventor | Become A Public Inventor. Robert L. Read, July, 2016. https://medium.com/hackernoon/become-a-public-inventor-aae282995f27 |
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