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Life & fun · March 21, 2020

Open Lung - Open Source Ventilator

An open-source collaborative ventilator project. 🚑

Open Lung - Open Source Ventilator launched on March 21, 2020 with 128 votes, #241 of 4,417 launches that month and more than 90% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 6 years on.

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What it does

We are a team of volunteers who are working day and night at the moment to develop a low-cost and open-source ventilator to help save lives and aid the recovery of COVID19 patients.

A collection of projects led by the design and development team at openlung.org in Canada in collaboration with Irish-based engineering and communications team at opensourceventilator.ie team and grown by the OSHW community. We are a team of volunteers who are working day and night at the moment to develop a low-cost and open-source ventilator to help save lives and aid the recovery of COVID19 patients. The OpenLung Emergency Medical Ventilator (OEMV) is a stopgap solution to the global shortage of medical ventilators. Its rapid development is the result of a novel open source paradigm that allows team members to make real-time contributions from any place in the world. DevOps is overseen…from openlung.org

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