About this Event
On Saturday June 13th, Public Invention will host a full day of speakers, live demos, and audience activities focused on the process of becoming Humanitarian Engineers and Public Inventors. Technology should be used for good. Public Invention is a US 501c3 public charity dedicated to open-source engineering and the motto “Invent in the public, for the Public.”
This conference will be devoted to the principle that technology can and should be used for good in the world, and how that relates to you, the technologist who wants to make a difference. Volunteering to work on one of our projects is a great way to boost your career, build your network, author a peer-reviewed paper, learn-by-doing, and be part of great teams working toward impactful goals.
Our keynote will be from Dave Tipping, lead engineer of KidsOR, which has made 140 pediatric operating rooms in the poorest countries in the world—enabling hundreds of thousands of life-changing surgeries for young children around the world. Dave will touch on KidsOR’s cooperation with Public Invention to bring new oxygen generation technology, partially developed by Public Invention working for NASA, out of the laboratory and into the operating room.
The rest of the day will feature talks from Engineers Without Borders, a talk about NASA’s Artemis mission, and live demos of Public Invention’s many projects. Come experience our microscope point-of-care project, our highly efficient cooking pot designed with computation fluid dynamics, our radical new ferrofluid pump that has no moving parts, and more. This will be a fun day for STEM students from high school on up to post-PhD researchers!
Lunch and light snacks options available with ticket purchase.
Sunday Workshop
We will have a free workshop on Sunday only for attendees of the conference that will focus on rapid prototyping of electronic circuits, microcontrollers, and CAD design. In other words, we will turn you into Tony Stark.
Spanish language support will be available. If you need interpretation assistance, please contact the event organizers in advance at [email protected], [email protected], or [email protected].
Agenda
🕑: 08:30 AM - 08:55 AM
Breakfast & Networking
🕑: 09:00 AM - 09:30 AM
Kids Operating Room - Equipping safe operating rooms for children worldwide.
Host: Dave Tipping
🕑: 09:30 AM - 09:45 AM
Humanitarian Engineering & Public Invention - Robert L. Read, PhD
Host: Robert L. Read
🕑: 09:45 AM - 10:00 AM
Librecorder: Open Source Point of Care Testing - Avinash Baskaran, PhD
Host: Avinash Baskaran, PhD
🕑: 10:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Global Distributed Tracking : Open-source, zero authentication asset tracking
Host: Milena Petrovich
🕑: 10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
Coffee: Bring your own humanitarian open source invention ideas!
🕑: 10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
Courtyard Demo of the Low-Gravity Particulate Inertial Filter for NASA
🕑: 11:00 AM - 11:30 AM
EcoPot: More Efficient Pot for Cooking on Gathered Wood -- live test
🕑: 11:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Engineers Without Borders: Civil Engineering one Community at a time
Host: Lizzie Francis, PE
🕑: 12:00 PM - 12:30 PM
Lunch -- icebreaker
🕑: 12:30 PM - 01:00 PM
How to be a Public Inventor
Host: Marc Jones, attorney
🕑: 01:00 PM - 01:15 PM
Ferro Fluid Pump: Student-developed pump with NO MOVING PARTS
Host: Asim Abidi
🕑: 01:15 PM - 01:30 PM
Passive Ferrofluid Check Valve: Valve with NO MOVING PARTS
Host: Joe Hershberger, MSEE
🕑: 01:30 PM - 02:00 PM
Biochar Toilet: Convenient Global Sanitation
Host: Lawrence Kincheloe
🕑: 02:00 PM - 02:15 PM
Coffee - Audience Project Evaluation: Assign Millifullers to our work
🕑: 02:15 PM - 02:45 PM
NASA's ARTEMIS project
Host: John Gibbons, Solar System Ambassador
🕑: 02:45 PM - 03:00 PM
Krake: Demonstration of a groundbreaking wireless alarm device
🕑: 03:00 PM - 03:30 PM
Alarm Dialog Management: Making alarm systems open, cheap, and systematic
🕑: 03:30 PM - 04:00 PM
Closing Remarks: The American Open Source Invention Philosophy
Host: Robert L. Read, PhD
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Central Library Special Events Center, 710 West Cesar Chavez Street, Austin, United States
USD 0.00 to USD 100.00
