Public Invention Projects
To learn more about a project or join a project, contact <read.robert@pubinv.org>.
Krake
This is a wireless alarm device which makes loud noises and flashes lights to alert a nearby individual.
NanoCap Table
NanoCaptable is an innovative, open-source tool designed to facilitate the equitable division and sharing of equity for nascent projects that are too small and uncertain to justify the creation of formal legal entities such as LLCs. This tool is particularly valuable for early-stage ventures where the revenue-generating potential remains unclear.
Project #51: Moonrat II: A tote-sized portable Incubator
A small, intelligent, portable, battery powered incubator will enable a wide variety of biological experiments and assays to be performed “in the field” far from a standard laboratory.
General Purpose Alarm Device (GPAD)
In conjunction with SPEC, we are building an easy-to-use standalone alarm device that can flash lights, make noise, and display text to act as an alarm for hobbyist medical devices. However, its uses are really endless.
Glia Open Source Tourniquet for Ukraine
Public Invention is proud to assist Glia, a Canadian firm, in its “Stop the Bleed” project making an open-source tourniquet for the terrible conflict in Ukraine. They have published an open-source design for their tourniquet, which means anyone can in principle make one with a 3D printer and the ability to sew.
Project #30: Number Spectra: Build a map of common irrational combinations
Often computer programmers and engineers write software which produces decimal expansions of numbers which in fact have a closed-form expression which is unknown or not observed to the programmer.
The Sunlight Regulatory Device License
This is an attempt to construct a new kind of free-libre open source license aimed specifically at medical devices. The COVID-19 pandemic has demonstrated the need for open, transparent devices which are both suppy-chain resilient and fully tested under normal regulatory regimes. In order to build an system of for-profit and non-profit firms that support such devices to alleviate want now and in the future, we believe a license that encourages a new kind of sharing is required: one that allows re-use of device designs and test documentation by forcing publication at the time of reuse for regulatory clearance.
FerroFluid Valve
This is an attempt to build a passive ferrofluid one-way valve. If this could be accomplished, it would be much easier to make a pump-on-a-chip. My previous attempts to do this were deeply flawed (see below).
I am now attempting to build a (very simple) physics simulation of planar ferrofluid to test out some additional ideas before 3D printing. This was inspired by a Public Invention volunteer, Veronica S, who did the initial CAD design compiled from my previous thoughts, causing me to realize some flaws to the initial design.
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