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 …
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 officials, medical professionals, and …
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 …
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 …
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.
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 …
Public Invention receives $20,000 grant from Protocol Labs for VentMon Read More »
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
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 …
Working on the Ventilators shortfall of the COVID-19 pandemic Read More »
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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