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git clone git://bitreich.org/tgtimes git://enlrupgkhuxnvlhsf6lc3fziv5h2hhfrinws65d7roiv6bfj7d652fid.onion/tgtimes (git://bitreich.org) |
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tarticle-tgtimes-Breathing-Open-Source.mw (1942B) |
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1 .SH tgtimes |
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2 Open-Source Breathing |
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4 .PP |
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5 The previous opus had a word or two about how difficult it could |
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6 be to get open hardware medical devices. |
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7 . |
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8 The Freespireco |
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9 .FS |
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10 https://www.pubinv.org/project/freespireco/ |
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11 .FE |
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12 project aims to bring a respirator device to life as a completely |
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13 Open Hardware project. |
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14 . |
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15 .PP |
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16 The challenge is not coming-up with something that works and is |
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17 reliable, but instead to provide a structure robust enough to be |
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18 accepted (and funded) for performing all the necessary certifications |
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19 needed before being allowed to the medical device market. |
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20 . |
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21 .PP |
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22 There are usually categories of criticalities, and an artificial |
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23 respirator is not escaping to the rule. The organiser of the project |
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24 have pursued this goal since long, and might likely have a very long |
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25 road to go. |
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26 . |
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27 .PP |
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28 It is essentially a pioneer of Open Hardware for critical medical |
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29 devices, step-by-step paving up the road toward certification: |
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30 designing and building devices to test these equipment, issuing |
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31 standards for data (like a JSON schema received over a serial |
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32 port directly from the device). |
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33 . |
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34 .PP |
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35 The strategy: offering reproducible tests as an anchor for trust. |
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36 Precious argument for facing big pharma equipment vendors that |
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37 are having an interest in locking their device down, preventing |
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38 repair or even inspection. |
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39 . |
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40 .PP |
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41 In a same journey toward braving Goliath: accessing the Outter Space. |
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42 And it is, as crazy as it looks, far from impossible to contribute to |
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43 space research even without a diploma: The RTEMS |
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44 .FS |
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45 https://rtems.org/ |
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46 .FE |
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47 project is open to contribution. |
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48 . |
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49 .PP |
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50 But that does not discourage the authors of the respirator project to keep going. |
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51 Not in a blind trust for the medical industry, |
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52 but in full foresight that nobody would want its mom's life given to a hobbyist toy made in a garage. |
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53 With this reality in mind, "whatever it takes" turns into "whatever is done", |
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54 and the road to certification progresses, one breath at a time. |
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