What can we learn from the makers who organized to locally produce open source respirators?
Early in the Covid-19 pandemic, makers across France and Belgium got organized to prototype open source ventilators. A research study by Interreg FabricAr3v.
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MakAir, an open source ventilator in the making
Days after the lockdown began in France, makers and software entrepreneurs in the region of Nantes began to design an open source ventilator: MakAir.
Minimal Universal Respirator, frugally engineered
In Paris, a citizen collective is working to produce an emergency medical ventilator that is open source, low-cost and easy to reproduce.