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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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).
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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.
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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
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45 https://rtems.org/
46 .FE
47 project is open to contribution.
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49 .PP
50 But that does not discourage the authors of the respirator project to keep going.
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 hobbyist toy made in a garage.
53 With this reality in mind, "whatever it takes" turns into "whatever is done",
54 and the road to certification progresses, one breath at a time.