In collaboration with Robert Read, Cledden Obeng-Poku Kwanin, Ivan Urdiales, Marie Cheynour, and Gianluca Skirde. In Search of Reduced Simulation Times The EcoPot project aims to identify more efficient container geometries for cooking food on open fires with gathered wood, as one billion people on earth still cook. To achieve this, certain assumptions are made to […]
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En colaboración con Robert Read, Cledden Obeng-Poku Kwanin, Ivan Urdiales, Marie Cheynour, y Gianluca Skirde. En busca de reducción de tiempos de simulación El proyecto EcoPot tiene como objetivo encontrar geometrías de recipientes más eficientes para cocinar con fuego de leña, previamente recolectada, al aire libre, como aún lo hacen mil millones de personas en el mundo.
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July 20, 2025 When first beginning their positions with Public Invention, volunteers are advised that the original commitment is five to six hours per week for a period of six months. This allows for volunteers to truly engage with a project, learn new skills, and immerse themselves in the organization without making a long term
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Oxygen is a miracle drug for many conditions, and is absolutely essential for serious surgeries. Kids Operating Room (KidsOR) (https://www.kidsor.org/) installs pediatric surgical theaters in the poorest countries of the world. Recently, they installed their 101st operating room, and have now performed 722,401 pediatric surgeries. Generally, these operating rooms use either bottled oxygen or pressure-swing
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The Demo Day – Overview On June 15th, Public Invention held its first in-real-life event since the pandemic in the Austin Public Library. We held a “demo day” demonstrating a lot of our physical inventions, and some software demos thrown in. Overall, it was a success, though the turnout was disappointing: we only met about
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Public Invention 2024 Annual Report We’ve published our annual report for 2024 in PDF form.
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Postdoc Bridge Funding Initiative (PBFI) – Robert L. Read, PhD, Public Invention, April 2025 Note: This work is now obsolete; it was a prelude to a workshop. The project has evolved, we suggest you look here. In early 2025, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and National Science Foundation (NSF)’s normal funding processes were disrupted.
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Development of a Wi-Fi Enabled, Wireless Medical Alarm Device: the Krake One of Public Invention’s most prominent projects, the General Purpose Alarm Device, or GPAD, which was recently published in HardwareX, has developed into a wireless version called the Krake. Both versions aim to be used in a medical setting as a peripheral annunciator, connecting
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Scenario: The Head Invention Coach is Incapacitated In 2024, the President of Public Invention is Robert L. Read, who is also the Founder and Head Invention Coach. He is also the only Public Inventor working full time (although he is unpaid). If he were incapacitated, it would seriously harm the viability of Public Invention. However,
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(The source version of this essay can be found at Open Source Medical Supplies, along with another explanation: https://opensourcemedicalsupplies.org/gosqas) Free Lightweight Global Distributed Tracking for Makers Written by: Robert L. Read, Christina A. Cole, and Victoria Jaqua (October 25, 2023) Lightweight Tracking Of an Object Tracking an object or make
