PolyVent Educational Platform (PEP)

Public Invention recently held a board meeting, in which I mentioned that if we did not win the NSF POSE grant, the Hackaday project contest, or another grant that we applied for, we might need to mothball the project. But the board insisted I keep it open and consider more options. I told them all of our grants would be resolved, either successfully or unsuccessfully, by Dec. 1st, so we agreed to make a decision at that time.

We have almost completed a paper we are submitting to HardwareX on the General Purpose Alarm Device (GPAD). Unfortunately, the work we are doing for NASA has been all-consuming.

The GPAD is an example of our flexible architecture; it is interfaced with a control card that we slot in and then connect with an RJ12 jack.  It is, of course, a separate module and repo:

https://github.com/PubInv/general-purpose-alarm-device

Judith Weng and Nina Lahoti have been working to expand the PolyVent Freespireco ecosystem.

Nina is improving VentDisplay with ventilator control features.

Judith has created an accurate lung model that can model the resistance and compliance of the lung.

Though not done, these two features work together to make the PolyVent a more valuable educational tool.

This project has been long going. But to reach more volunteers (and to sumbit to the Save-the-world prize), we are creating a face here at Hackaday.

We need volunteers for almost everything, but a skilled C programmer with embedded engineering experience would be highly appreciated.