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