Dear Anonymous Donor, Thank you for your recent generous anonymous gift to Public Invention. I don’t know who you are or why you chose to remain anonymous, but I respect your wishes. Your gift expresses confidence in the ability of our society to improve itself by using one of our most powerful tools—technological innovation. In […]
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The VentMon project shows great promise in testing and monitoring emergency pandemic ventilators. I can’t keep up with all the features we need to add. We need some high-quality programming volunteered in C and JavaScript. Check out the descriptions and see if you are interested. Contact Robert L. Read for more information.
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Public Invention has received a $20,000 grant from Protocol Labs to build the VentMon, a tester/monitor for rapidly manufactured pandemic ventilators. The pandemic demands a simple device that can be plugged into an airway to test a ventilator. In the developing world, many ventilators are broken and need to be repaired; part of the repairing
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I’ve written this topical piece on the current state of things as I see them in the effort to make open source ventilators. https://medium.com/@RobertLeeRead/the-state-of-open-source-ventilator-projects-as-of-march-21st-1f36bfb608b4
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In just the last two weeks, America has begun to take strenuous action to slow the COVID-19 pandemic. Adam made a private call for us to answer this challenge, and Bruce Fenton (unknown to me) made a public call. Since Monday I have been working full-time (and a bit more) on this. Having the advantage of
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LibrePlanet2020 is a leading conference on ethical software; it has been virtualized due to the COVID-19 pandemic. But, it is totally free! You can watch here: https://libreplanet.org/2020/live/ . Public Invention is going to be speaking at 4:20 on Sunday, (Eastern time). We will be presenting these slides: slides, check them out.
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If you would like to help promote Public Invention, feel free to print or reused this business-card sized image:
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“80% of projects are trivial. 20% are impossible. We must work in the thin boundary between these two classes.” — Edsger Dijkstra (quoted from memory) Public Invention fosters project-based invention teams that work “In the public, for the public.” Experience has shown this is a great way to learn, although learning is a secondary benefit
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Science is about truth; engineering is about compromise. At Public Invention, we do both, but perhaps more engineering than science. Our goal is to have a large positive impact on many people; but time and money are always in short supply. How, then, to compromise on which projects to prioritize? In order to be able
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The 7-Tet Tetrobot, a Public Invention Many of us hear the song of the maker. As Dorothy Sayers has pointed out in the “Mind of the Maker”, making is a participation in, or at least a simulation of, the divine. It has always been so, but it has never been easier. Today, we have maker
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