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1 .SH tgtimes | |
2 Open-Source Breathing | |
3 .2C 28v | |
4 . | |
5 .PP | |
6 The previous opus had a word or two about how difficult it could | |
7 be to get open hardware medical devices. | |
8 . | |
9 The Freespireco | |
10 .FS | |
11 https://www.pubinv.org/project/freespireco/ | |
12 .FE | |
13 project aims to bring a respirator device to life as a completely | |
14 Open Hardware project. | |
15 . | |
16 .PP | |
17 The challenge is not coming-up with something that works and is | |
18 reliable, but instead to provide a structure robust enough to be | |
19 accepted (and funded) for performing all the necessary certifications | |
20 needed before being allowed to the medical device market. | |
21 . | |
22 .PP | |
23 There are usually categories of criticalities, and an artificial | |
24 respirator is not escaping to the rule. The organiser of the project | |
25 have pursued this goal since long, and might likely have a very long | |
26 road to go. | |
27 . | |
28 .PP | |
29 It is essentially a pioneer of Open Hardware for critical medical | |
30 devices, step-by-step paving up the road toward certification: | |
31 designing and building devices to test these equipment, issuing | |
32 standards for data (like a JSON schema received over a serial | |
33 port directly from the device). | |
34 . | |
35 .PP | |
36 The strategy: offering reproducible tests as an anchor for trust. | |
37 Precious argument for facing big pharma equipment vendors that | |
38 are having an interest in locking their device down, preventing | |
39 repair or even inspection. | |
40 . | |
41 .PP | |
42 In a same journey toward braving Goliath: accessing the Outter Space. | |
43 And it is, as crazy as it looks, far from impossible to contribute to | |
44 space research even without a diploma: The RTEMS | |
45 .FS | |
46 https://rtems.org/ | |
47 .FE | |
48 project is open to contribution. | |
49 . | |
50 .PP | |
51 But that does not discourage the authors of the respirator project to ke… | |
52 Not in a blind trust for the medical industry, | |
53 but in full foresight that nobody would want its mom's life given to a h… | |
54 With this reality in mind, "whatever it takes" turns into "whatever is d… | |
55 and the road to certification progresses, one breath at a time. |