Public Invention Projects
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 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.
Freespireco
The COVID-19 pandemic has demonstrated a clear and present need for a complete, free-libre open-source, easily repairable, widely usable, safe and effective respiratory support medical device ecosystem. Public Invention asks that you support our project to create such a system, to be called The Freespireco Project.
The Ox Project
This project seeks to design and prototype a scalable, open source oxygen concentrator for medical therapies in rugged environments. We have developed a design and prototyped/presented it at our most recent respiratory conference; however, we could always use more help to improve the project further.
Project #44: social tetrahedrons
This is an interactive 3D simulation for representing Mark’s conception of the fourth dimension as “abundance” or “condition,” which may be thought of as power or development. It is represented as a slider in this visual application.
The ultimate purpose is to match needs with offers, for example to work on technical projects, base on an interpretation of Maslow’s Pyramid, having four dimenstions. People express their desires by placing themselves on a tetrahedron that captures, for example, the Mind/Body/Spirt and Abundance situation, and might then be matched with projects that are suited to them. Exactly how this will be done is still being worked out; this is a step.
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Public Invention accepts and publishes a wide variety of humanitarian invention ideas. Some of these are just a simple idea; some have a one-page, and some are fully developed projects with sophisticated prototypes. All of them need volunteers with a wide variety of skill sets! Because it changes constantly, please checkout our spreadsheet.
