A number of groups are working on open ventilators and other hardware projects to contribute to the shortages of medical supplies, equipment, and Personal Protection Equipment due to the coronavirus COVID-19. I heard an estimate today on the news that 3 billion masks will be needed in the US, for example. The scale of the impact of the coronavirus is hard to fathom. A short list of projects are shown below.

Open Projects

• From Design to Mass 3D printing of Medical Shields in Three Days
• Open Source COVID19 Medical Supplies (OSCMS)
• Coronavirus Makers
• A.I.RE. forum
• Arduino-controlled respirator
• 7 open hardware projects working to solve COVID-19
• Ultimate Medical Hackathon: How Fast Can We Design And Deploy An Open Source Ventilator?
• COVID-19 forecast data on GitHub
• MIT Ventilator project from 2010

Request for Information

• Medical CBRN Defense Consortium (MCDC) Other Transaction Agreement (OTA) Request for Information (RFI) – CoV Pandemic Response