A number of groups are working on open ventilators and other hardware projects to contribute to the shortages of medical supplies, equipment, and Personal Protection Equipment due to the coronavirus COVID-19. I heard an estimate today on the news that 3 billion masks will be needed in the US, for example. The scale of the impact of the coronavirus is hard to fathom. A short list of projects are shown below.
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Open Projects
- From Design to Mass 3D printing of Medical Shields in Three Days
- Open Source COVID19 Medical Supplies (OSCMS)
- Coronavirus Makers
- A.I.RE. forum
- Arduino-controlled respirator
- 7 open hardware projects working to solve COVID-19
- Ultimate Medical Hackathon: How Fast Can We Design And Deploy An Open Source Ventilator?
- COVID-19 forecast data on GitHub
- MIT Ventilator project from 2010
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