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i     1 .SH tgtimes	Err	bitreich.org	70
i     2 Open-Source Breathing	Err	bitreich.org	70
i     3 .2C 28v	Err	bitreich.org	70
i     4 .	Err	bitreich.org	70
i     5 .PP	Err	bitreich.org	70
i     6 The previous opus had a word or two about how difficult it could	Err	bitreich.org	70
i     7 be to get open hardware medical devices.	Err	bitreich.org	70
i     8 .	Err	bitreich.org	70
i     9 The Freespireco	Err	bitreich.org	70
i    10 .FS	Err	bitreich.org	70
i    11 https://www.pubinv.org/project/freespireco/	Err	bitreich.org	70
i    12 .FE	Err	bitreich.org	70
i    13 project aims to bring a respirator device to life as a completely	Err	bitreich.org	70
i    14 Open Hardware project.	Err	bitreich.org	70
i    15 .	Err	bitreich.org	70
i    16 .PP	Err	bitreich.org	70
i    17 The challenge is not coming-up with something that works and is	Err	bitreich.org	70
i    18 reliable, but instead to provide a structure robust enough to be	Err	bitreich.org	70
i    19 accepted (and funded) for performing all the necessary certifications	Err	bitreich.org	70
i    20 needed before being allowed to the medical device market.	Err	bitreich.org	70
i    21 .	Err	bitreich.org	70
i    22 .PP	Err	bitreich.org	70
i    23 There are usually categories of criticalities, and an artificial	Err	bitreich.org	70
i    24 respirator is not escaping to the rule. The organiser of the project	Err	bitreich.org	70
i    25 have pursued this goal since long, and might likely have a very long	Err	bitreich.org	70
i    26 road to go.	Err	bitreich.org	70
i    27 .	Err	bitreich.org	70
i    28 .PP	Err	bitreich.org	70
i    29 It is essentially a pioneer of Open Hardware for critical medical	Err	bitreich.org	70
i    30 devices, step-by-step paving up the road toward certification:	Err	bitreich.org	70
i    31 designing and building devices to test these equipment, issuing	Err	bitreich.org	70
i    32 standards for data (like a JSON schema received over a serial	Err	bitreich.org	70
i    33 port directly from the device).	Err	bitreich.org	70
i    34 .	Err	bitreich.org	70
i    35 .PP	Err	bitreich.org	70
i    36 The strategy: offering reproducible tests as an anchor for trust.	Err	bitreich.org	70
i    37 Precious argument for facing big pharma equipment vendors that	Err	bitreich.org	70
i    38 are having an interest in locking their device down, preventing	Err	bitreich.org	70
i    39 repair or even inspection.	Err	bitreich.org	70
i    40 .	Err	bitreich.org	70
i    41 .PP	Err	bitreich.org	70
i    42 In a same journey toward braving Goliath: accessing the Outter Space.	Err	bitreich.org	70
i    43 And it is, as crazy as it looks, far from impossible to contribute to	Err	bitreich.org	70
i    44 space research even without a diploma: The RTEMS	Err	bitreich.org	70
i    45 .FS	Err	bitreich.org	70
i    46 https://rtems.org/	Err	bitreich.org	70
i    47 .FE	Err	bitreich.org	70
i    48 project is open to contribution.	Err	bitreich.org	70
i    49 .	Err	bitreich.org	70
i    50 .PP	Err	bitreich.org	70
i    51 But that does not discourage the authors of the respirator project to keep going.	Err	bitreich.org	70
i    52 Not in a blind trust for the medical industry,	Err	bitreich.org	70
i    53 but in full foresight that nobody would want its mom's life given to a hobbyist toy made in a garage.	Err	bitreich.org	70
i    54 With this reality in mind, "whatever it takes" turns into "whatever is done",	Err	bitreich.org	70
i    55 and the road to certification progresses, one breath at a time.	Err	bitreich.org	70
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