Thank you to all our talented speakers and teams who presented at our virtual mini-con Vent-Con QA, where we discussed pandemic ventilators in the context of quality assurance and regulatory compliance. Each presenter provided a unique and important perspective, as we heard experts from diverse fields discuss medical, risk, design, and various other aspects of […]
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We are pleased to thank the Mozilla Open Source Support Foundation for a generous grant of $20,000 specifically to make and give away the VentMon free-of-charge. The VentMon is one of our most active projects in the fight against COVID-19. Funding for the VentMon: A Measuring Device for Ventilators The VentMon is a device for
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Join us next Thursday, July 16th at 2pm PDT for Vent-Con QA! This virtual mini-conference will build on our May Vent-Con event, and will discuss open source ventilators on the topic of Quality Assurance and Regulatory Compliance. The conference will once again be hosted by Make.co, Helpful Engineering, and Public Invention and is free of
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The videos from Vent-Con 2020 are available now! On May 21st, Public Invention co-hosted Vent-Con 2020 – an Open Source Ventilator Conference – along with Helpful Engineering, Make.co, and Ventilators Collaboration Network. The mini-conference/webinar reviewed the impressive progress, discussed the uncertain present, and forged a path forward into the future for makers, philanthropists, investors, government
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Public Invention was recently featured in an article in Make: magazine that highlights our ventilator project in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The article includes a video interview with President Robert L. Read and Public Invention collaborators Geoff Mulligan, Lauria Clarke, Juan E. Villacres Perez, and Avinash Baskaran, detailing our research and exploring the future
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Thank You to an Anonymous Donor Support for Public Invention and Open-Source Inventions 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
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Keeping up with VentMon Development 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. Volunteer Opportunities We need some high-quality programming volunteered in C and JavaScript. Check out the descriptions and see if you are interested. Contact Robert L.
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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 Environment for Open-Source 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
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The State of Open-Source Ventilator Projects I’ve written this topical piece on the current state of things as I see them in the effort to make open-source ventilators. Medium Link 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. NECSI EndCoronavirus Ventilator Response
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