On January 9, 2021, Public Invention hosted our virtual “year in review” conference titled PubInvCon 2021: Work To Be Done. The conference was a coming together of dedicated inventors, volunteers, scientists, students, and more interested in humanitarian inventing “in the public, for the public.” We discussed our successes of 2020 and outlined the hard work […]
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By Ben Coombs “As to diseases, make a habit of two things – to help, or at least to do no harm.” written by Hippocrates in Epidemics. A Diagram of Major Humanitarian Engineering Efforts (Link allows zooming) Early in 2020 the alarm bells rang out. All across the world people tuned into news about
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Recently, Public Invention President Robert L. Read and other volunteers assisted a project with students from Fraunhofer Institute. The Institute released a press release summarized here: In April, COVID-19 began straining healthcare systems as we saw supply-chain breakdowns leading to ventilator shortages. To help mitigate this, individuals, communities, companies, and research institutions began to design
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Avinash Baskaran has been with Public Invention since it was just him and Dr. Robert Read inventing in a basement. And as Public Invention has grown, so has Avinash. “I met Rob at Engineers Without Borders a few years ago, and we talked about our interests, what we were thinking about, and the kinds of
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— Robert L. Read In June and July, Public Invention applied for and received two $20,000 grants, one from the Mozilla Open Source Software (MOSS) Foundation, and one from Protocol labs, specifically to develop, make, and give away free-of-charge, the “VentMon” tester for invasive and non-invasive ventilators. The MOSS foundation grant had stronger legal language
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Lauria Clarke knew she wanted to be an engineer from the time she was a little kid. “I heard that engineers got to make things,” she said. “And I thought that was really cool, because I was like, that’s what I like doing.” Now, Lauria is a valued member of the Public Invention team as
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Protocols Labs has been a major support for organizations such as Public Invention which have been addressing the most extraordinary health crisis of this century: the COVID-19 pandemic. Public Invention co-hosted free virtual mini-cons VentCon 2020 and VentConQA, attended by 115 and 50 people respectively (slides and videos at those links). These events drew together
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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. The VentMon is a device for measuring pressure, flow, oxygen, temperature and humidity produced by
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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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