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PubInv
Austin, Texas, USA

We invent things that help all people. We empower inventors, technologists, and students to publish, find, and collaborate on invention ideas through direct coaching, team formation, curation of work, publication, co-working and learning events, and, in some cases, material support.

We challenge the notion that inventions should be reserved for patents and profits. Rather, we invite fellow builders of the future to use their skills for humanitarian purpose. We want to make the future better for everyone. To do this we remove, rather than add, legal barriers to the free use of our inventions. All work done with Public Invention is free and open to all under share-alike public licenses.

The Public Inventor of the future is not a lone genius but a person who is part of a community. We empower Public Invention Teams that embrace the interdisciplinary talents that combine to shape the future: inventiveness, design, writing, art, photography, engineering, administration, fundraising, and other skills we cannot predict. All of our work is in service to nurture humanitarian invention.

Public Inventors follow these principles:

  • Share everything equally and immediately. Do not seek patents that imply a monopoly that is the antithesis of sharing.
  • Work in the light. In addition to publishing successful inventions, publish failures. Publish mediocrity. Publish everything. Work in the public for the public.
  • Keep it real. Always be working towards a real invention that reallys helps people. It is better to make something tiny and real than to make something grand and awesome that is not real. A roller skate is better than a toy space fighter.
  • Don’t build weapons. Technology is not neutral. Some things are more easily used for good and harder to pervert than others. Invent things that heal, help, educate, entertain, enlighten, strengthen, and ennoble humanity.
  • Ideas are cheap. Invention requires a flash of insight, an inspiration. But that is only 1% of the work of developing an idea.
  • Seek egalitarian usefulness. All else being equal, inventions which make us more equal are better than inventions that make us less equal.
  • Collaborate whenever possible. Even if it slows you down, try to involve others whenever you can.
  • Honor and value every contribution. Some inventions require specialized math; all inventions require general communications and the most specialized and the most general skills are all needed.
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We need to increase our team to form a movement. We need money to pay for direct publication costs and to sponsor events. Reaching the first 20 sponsors will be a sign of grass-roots support for Public Invention and our many projects.

Featured work

  1. PubInv/covid19-vent-list

    A list projects to make emergency ventilators in response to COVID-19, focusing on free-libre open source

  2. PubInv/ventmon-ventilator-inline-test-monitor

    Design of inline monitor/tester for pandemic ventilators and Overall Strategy for Deployment

    C++ 23
  3. PubInv/PIRDS-pubinv-respiration-data-standard

    Respiration Data Standard -- A standard for COVID-19 pandemic ventilator data exchange

    C++ 9
  4. PubInv/GlussCon

    A Controller for a GlussBot based in form of a "puppet", hand-manipulable model -- GlussCon

    HTML 2
  5. PubInv/segmented-helixes

    Developing the math of discrete helices generated from ANY repeated objects stacked with the same rule

    JavaScript 1
  6. PubInv/PIRDS-logger

    A logger for PubInv Respiratory Data Standard data and a webserver for it

    C 4

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