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Track Your Make

(The source version of this essay can be found at Open Source Medical Supplies, long with other 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 […]

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Jeopardy Game – July Inventor Gathering

Greetings inventors, friends and supporters, Here is the jeopardy game from our July Inventor Gathering. This was created by our Outreach Coordinator, Megan Cadena. Please enjoy this slide deck and share it with others! It’s already available for you to use at your next virtual game night. Link to Game: invention-qs Sincerely, The Public Invention

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UNIVA Briefing: Humanitarian Engineering Student Organizations and Project Conceptualization

Authored by: Miriam Castillo and Megan Cadena Public Invention is a non-profit organization located in Austin, Texas, USA. It was formed in 2016 through the vision and philosophy of Robert L. Read (PhD) who is the founder and leader of invention projects. Why is there a Public Invention? Born from a child whose books, comics

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UNIVA documento informativo: Organizaciones Estudiantiles de Ingeniería Humanitaria y Conceptualización de Proyectos

Escrito por: Miriam Castillo y Megan Cadena Public Invention es una organizacion sin fines de lucro localizada en Austin, Texas, USA. La cual se forma en 2016 a traves de la visión y filosofia de PHD Robert L. Read quien es el fundador y lider de proyectos de invención. ¿Por qué existe Public Invention? Nace

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Impact of VentMon in India, from Taurus Medical Corporation

Since its inception, we have known that VentMon has the capacity to save lives. We are excited to report that we’ve received tangible proof of this from Ajit Lahori and his team from Taurus Medical Corporation in India. After sending Ajit Lahori a VentMon, Public Invention received this testimonial highlighting how VentMon is making an

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Catch Robert Read on the Fashionably Late Podcast!

This past week, Public Invention President Robert L. Read was featured on the Fashionably Late podcast. In it, Rob talks about his journey from computer programmer to Presidental Innovation Fellow to founder and president of Public Invention. He discusses feeling unfulfilled in his corporate job and how his passions led him to Public Invention, and

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Summary of PubInvCon 2021: Work to Be Done

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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