Public Invention
Curious about open-source inventions and technology for the public good? You’re in the right place!
I’m Robert Lee Read, founder of Public Invention—a US 501(c)(3) nonprofit working to build a global community of inventors, collaborating to create freely available, open-source solutions that benefit everyone.
Want to dive deeper? Check out GitHub: https://github.com/PubInv. For more information, visit us at https://www.pubinv.org/. And for updates, ideas, and behind-the-scenes action, join us every 3rd Thursday at Inventors Gathering, RSVP on Eventbrite.
Got questions or want to get involved? Shoot us an email at [email protected]. Let’s invent a better future together!
Librecorder: A proposed microscope-based open source point-of-care diagnostic system
Using GitHub to Manage Volunteer Teams
Postdoc Bridge Funding Initiative: How to Mitigate the US Funding Chaos for Early-Career Researchers
Open Source: Public Infrastructure
Applications Free of Shared Persistence Can Be Powerful and Free with GitHub Pages
Women in STEM and Open Source
Q&A from the Women in STEM and Open Source Inventors' Gathering
Marc Jones on Free and Open Source Licensing
Imagine you are a young Tony Stark
The Crisis in Our Universities and What To Do About It
Attempted Non-Invasive Impedance Sensing in Living Plants with the NanoVNA
Personal Thoughts on Silviculture
Passive Ferrofluid Check Valve - A Project to Explore a Novel Invention
The NanoCapTable Project: Effortlessly track Equity in early-stage startup projects at no cost
The Mind-blowing Beauty of Computer Programming: Magic and Deeper Magic
Ferrofluid Checkvalve and Pump
OPEN SCIENCE, INDEPENDENT RESEARCH, AND INSTITUTE FOR GLOBAL OPEN RESEARCH AND EDUCATION (IGDORE)
GPAD Demonstration Video
Profs. Mellenthin and Santos to use PolyVent at Colorado Mesa University
Gala and 2023 Awards Featuring Dale Dougherty
The Gadgeteer Superhero Trope Made Real
Supply Chain as a Humanitarian Responsibility
Inventor's Gathering: Moonrat Portable Incubator Presentation
PolyVentPromotionalFinal
GPAD Demo Video
GOSQAS Demo
Teardown of the ConAir 1875 HairDryer Circuit
The Unscrew Propeller
Intro to Public Invention's Freespireco talk at Southern California Linux Expo (SCaLE 19x)
Advice to the SoPH (Society of Public Invention and Humanitarian Engineering) at Auburn University