Design of a Wheelchair for Low-Income Countries, the Second Stage of a Project

Rossa-Sierra, Alberto; Cortés-Chávez, Fabiola; Vidana-Zavala, David; Trotta, Maria Giovanna

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-20444-0_29

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“…A well-established literature has developed around the need for low-cost open-source wheel chairs made with PVC pipe, CNC laser cut wood, constructed around inexpensive outdoor lawn chairs, and cut plywood [208][209][210] [214], that could be used for rural clinics, but are meant for use by healthy people. In addition to the normal advantages of open hardware, including cost and customizability, ease of repair is a substantial benefit of open wheel chair designs [215].…”

Section: Wheel Chairmentioning

confidence: 99%

Distributed Manufacturing of Open-Source Medical Hardware for Pandemics

Pearce¹

2020

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Distributed digital manufacturing offers a solution to medical supply and technology shortages during pandemics. To prepare for the next pandemic, this study reviews the state-of-the-art for open hardware designs needed in a COVID-19-like pandemic. It evaluates the readiness of the top twenty technologies requested by the Government of India. The results show that the majority of the actual medical products have had some open source development, however, only 15% of the supporting technologies that make the open source device possible are freely available. The results show there is still considerable work needed to provide open source paths for the development of all the medical hardware needed during pandemics. Five core areas of future work are discussed that include: i) technical development of a wide-range of open source solutions for all medical supplies and devices, ii) policies that protect the productivity of laboratories, makerspaces and fabrication facilities during a pandemic, as well as iii) streamlining the regulatory process, iv) developing Good-Samaritan laws to protect makers and designers of open medical hardware, as well as to compel those with knowledge that will save lives to share it, and v) requiring all citizen-funded research to be released with free and open source licenses.

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Section: Wheel Chairmentioning

confidence: 99%

Distributed Manufacturing of Open-Source Medical Hardware for Pandemics

Pearce¹

2020

Preprint

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“…A well-established literature has developed around the need for low-cost open source wheelchairs made with PVC pipe, CNC laser cut wood, constructed around inexpensive outdoor lawn chairs, and cut plywood [208][209][210]. The Hu-Go (Figure 4) [211], Kigali Chair [212], and the TooWheels [213] are all open source wheelchairs that could be fabricated in makerspaces and fab labs.…”

Section: Wheelchairmentioning

confidence: 99%

Distributed Manufacturing of Open Source Medical Hardware for Pandemics

Pearce

2020

JMMP

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Distributed digital manufacturing offers a solution to medical supply and technology shortages during pandemics. To prepare for the next pandemic, this study reviews the state-of-the-art of open hardware designs needed in a COVID-19-like pandemic. It evaluates the readiness of the top twenty technologies requested by the Government of India. The results show that the majority of the actual medical products have some open source development, however, only 15% of the supporting technologies required to produce them are freely available. The results show there is still considerable research needed to provide open source paths for the development of all the medical hardware needed during pandemics. Five core areas of future research are discussed, which include (i) technical development of a wide-range of open source solutions for all medical supplies and devices, (ii) policies that protect the productivity of laboratories, makerspaces, and fabrication facilities during a pandemic, as well as (iii) streamlining the regulatory process, (iv) developing Good-Samaritan laws to protect makers and designers of open medical hardware, as well as to compel those with knowledge that will save lives to share it, and (v) requiring all citizen-funded research to be released with free and open source licenses.

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