List of "buidable DIY" Covid-19 Open Source Ventilator initiatives for emergency purposes.
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Analysis of Open Source COVID-19 Pandemic Ventilator Projects https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vTYAfldxoIiO46VAWH1NlhrwFBn9mguqS2bh1spnLEu4AVVN1cj1vaEm6vOp5Z6UnaAbUwd8dslCXdM/pubhtml#
UK Government Department of Health & Social Care: Rapidly manufactured ventilator system specification
Caregiver models based on Decathlon products
- Website: https://www.utbm.fr/MASQUES-DECATHLON-VISIERE/
- Files: http://www.utbm.fr/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Connecteur-filtre-UTBMCrunchLab.zip
- Video: https://france3-regions.francetvinfo.fr/bourgogne-franche-comte/doubs/pays-de-montbeliard/coronavirus-covid-19-ecole-ingenieurs-belfort-montbeliard-lance-production-masques-hopital-1808966.html
- Tested: ✅ by Werner Jacob
- Feedback: Much better design and mechanism of attaching the charlotte into the Decathlon mask than the Easy Covid 19
- Printing time: "Simple" 1h30, "double" 2h30
- Quality: 8/10
It’s the construction of an emergency ventilator mask, realized by adjusting a decathlon snorkeling mask already available on the market.
- Website: https://www.isinnova.it/easy-covid19-eng/
- Files: https://www.isinnova.it/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/charlotte-valve.zip
- Video: https://youtu.be/w4Csqdxkrfw
- Tested: ✅ by Werner Jacob
- Feedback: Not great designs. Easily breaks at the fixation part
- Quality: 5/10
An [IN PROGRESS] open source, low resource, quick deployment ventilator design that utilizes a bag valve mask (BVM or Ambu-bag) as a core component.
- Gitlab: https://gitlab.com/open-source-ventilator/OpenLung
- Website: https://opensourceventilator.ie/
- Diagram: https://whimsical.com/4mai9JtqTHAGu6i6qz8Hyy
- Twitter: https://twitter.com/OSVentilator
- Media: https://www.forbes.com/sites/alexandrasternlicht/2020/03/18/theres-a-shortage-of-ventilators-for-coronavirus-patients-so-this-international-group-invented-an-open-source-alternative-thats-being-tested-next-week/#67589ab73ba0
OxyGEN is an open hardware prototype that has been collaboratively developed by a group of engineers led by Barcelona based company, PROTOFY.xyz. Initiated March 2020.
- Website: https://www.oxygen.protofy.xyz/
- Github: https://github.com/ProtofyTeam/OxyGEN
- Files: https://github.com/ProtofyTeam/OxyGEN/archive/master.zip
Low-Cost Open Source Ventilator or PAPR
- Github: https://github.com/jcl5m1/ventilator
- Blog: https://blog.arduino.cc/2020/03/17/designing-a-low-cost-open-source-ventilator-with-arduino/
- Media: https://www.vice.com/en_uk/article/5dm4mb/people-are-trying-to-make-diy-ventilators-to-meet-coronavirus-demand
- Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n57u1NvXBgw
An open hardware and source project aiming to upgrade ventilation bags. By collaborators from German technical University RWTH Aachen.
- Website: https://coresponse.github.io/blog/
- Github: https://github.com/CORESPONSE
- Twitter: https://twitter.com/CORESPONSE
- Video: https://youtu.be/X8FwXDQqe1M
- Website: https://e-vent.mit.edu/
- Twitter Post David Austin from MIT: https://twitter.com/sinanaral/status/1244107247959056384?s=20
- Media Post : https://scitechdaily.com/mit-posts-free-plans-online-for-an-emergency-ventilator-that-can-be-built-for-100/
- Website: https://simulation.health.ufl.edu/technology-development/open-source-ventilator-project/
- GitHub: https://github.com/CSSALTlab/Open_Source_Ventilator
- Forum: https://simulation.health.ufl.edu/forums/forum/open-source-ventilator-project/
- Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xX6sCamPJw
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- COVID-19 open innovation index https://www.luminary-labs.com/insight/covid-19-open-innovation-index/
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