General Purpose Alarm Device
Public Invention
Redefine what it means to innovate for humanitarian engineering Instead of reserving inventions for patents and profits.
This work is a collaboration with the?Sustainable Progress and Equality Collective (SPEC).
This General-Purpose-Alarm-Device repository defines a ‘General Purpose Alarm Device’ aka, GPAD module. This module has an enclosure and inside is an embedded microcontroller system with the following features to alert a human of a condition.
The GPAD does not detect the conditions that need to be alarmed. It is a peripheral to a controlling host device that will assert status through the GPAD to an end user.
Sophisticated medical devices, such as the?PolyVent open source ventilator Public Invention Project, often need to alert care providers of some condition that must be corrected. These alarm conditions might be life-threatening or merely informational. A device that could alert caregivers by light and sound, and provide some textual information, would be a very useful module. Furthermore, it could be used for many other purposes. This is the goal of the General Purpose Alarm Module (GPAD).
Skills Needed
Arduino programming, documentation, audio subsystem design
Quarterly Goals