FreeCAD Humanitarian Projects

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This wiki page is being used to track all Humanitarian based efforts reported and organized on the forum, that benefit from using FreeCAD as part of their projects.

Ventilators

• Modernizing the Bird Mark 7 ventilator (MARK-19)

https://www.mark-19.com/

https://github.com/cleveriza/Mark-19-Ventilator

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SG3zlpRSfWE

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forrest_Bird

• LUNGSTORS - An open-source blower based medical ventilator

https://protors.co/lungstors/

https://youtu.be/Tb_EPnKUfUg

• LibreRespire open source ventilators

http://librerespire.org/

https://www.tcd.ie/news_events/articles/trinity-researchers-build-open-source-ventilator-with-international-non-profit-consortium/

https://github.com/librerespire/ventilator/tree/manjula/3D-Models/Version0.1

Hospital Gear

• Recreating a Libre/Open Source Otoscope in FreeCAD
• Roll to Prone mechanism that turns hospital patients from a supine to prone position (helps with respiratory distress)