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Videos from Vent-Con 2020 are Available Now!

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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 Featured in Make: Magazine

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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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We Need a Few Good Programmers in C and JavaScript

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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 Receives $20,000 Grant from Protocol Labs for VentMon

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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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Working on the Ventilators Shortfall of the COVID-19 Pandemic

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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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Public Invention Speaking at LibrePlanet 2020 Conference

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LibrePlanet2020 Conference LibrePlanet2020 is a leading conference on ethical software; it has been virtualized due to the COVID-19 pandemic. It is totally free! You can watch here: https://libreplanet.org/2020/live/. Presentation Slides Public Invention is going to be speaking at 4:20 on Sunday (EST).  We will be presenting these slides: Slides  

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The Fuller Scale: A Unit of Humanitarian Invention Impact

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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 Story of a Public, Cooperative Mathathon

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A hexagonal-centered toroidal 1.053-bounded regular tetrahedral simplex chain, discovered at the Mathathon by Nathan Gilbert. Public Invention’s First Mathathon Two weekends ago, something rare happened. Thirteen people, sharing only a common interest in math, joined together from India, the Middle-East, England, Canada and the United States to solve real math problems. As might be expected,

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