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	Author: Josuah Demangeon <[email protected]>
	Date: Sat, 23 Apr 2022 04:06:28 +0200

	opus5: add an article about open hardware ventilator

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	+.SH tgtimes
	+Breathing Open-Source
	+.
	+.PP
	+The previous opus had a word or two about how difficult it could
	+be to get open hardware medical devices.
	+.
	+The Freespireco
	+.FS
	+https://www.pubinv.org/project/freespireco/
	+.FE
	+project aims to bring a respirator device to life as a completely
	+Open Hardware project.
	+.
	+.PP
	+The challenge is not coming-up with something that works and is
	+reliable, but instead to provide a structure robust enough to be
	+accepted (and funded) for performing all the necessary certifications
	+needed before being allowed to the medical device market.
	+.
	+.PP
	+There are usually categories of criticalities, and an artificial
	+respirator is not escaping to the rule. The organiser of the project
	+have pursued this goal since long, and might likely have a very long
	+road to go.
	+.
	+.PP
	+It is essentially a pioneer of Open Hardware for critical medical
	+devices, step-by-step paving up the road toward certification:
	+designing and building devices to test these equipment, issuing
	+standards for data (like a JSON schema received over a serial
	+port directly from the device).
	+.
	+.PP
	+The strategy: offering reproducible tests as an anchor for trust.
	+Precious argument for facing big pharma equipment vendors that
	+are having an interest in locking their device down, preventing
	+repair or even inspection.
	+.
	+.PP
	+A journey toward braving Goliath, it might as well be easier to
	+get open-source in Space. The RTEMS
	+.FS
	+https://rtems.org/
	+.FE
	+project proves it is.
	+.
	+.PP
	+But that does not discourage the project's authors to keep going,
	+not in an illusion of getting embraced by the medical industry,
	+but in full foresight that nobody would want its mom's life given
	+to a hobbyist toy made in a garage.
	+.
	+.PP
	+One breath at a time, the project takes anchors onto organisations,
	+foundations, structures, standards, and everything it takes to pass
	+over the barrier of life-critical reliability and certification.