The COVID-19 Pandemic Highlights the Need for Open Design Not Just Open Hardware
The COVID-19 Pandemic Highlights the Need for Open Design Not Just Open Hardware
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COVID-19 大流行凸显了开放设计的必要性，而不仅仅是开放硬件
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10.1080/14606925.2020.1859168
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2021
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Stirling J
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COVID-19疫情导致开源硬件（尤其是开源解码器）的发展激增。由于合法的法律的和责任问题，这些开源呼吸机项目中的许多都采用了完工后开放的模式。然而，这导致了项目的扩散，世界各地的团队独立设计了100多个相互不兼容的制冷剂，这意味着大量的重复工作。一个功能设计是必要的，但不足以帮助病人的项目。该器械必须通过制造商的监管批准，该制造商理解为什么要做出设计决策。在这篇文章中，我们认为，开放源码软件开发的开放设计过程可以用于开源硬件。这一过程不仅允许远程团队共同改进单个设计，还提供了制造商通过监管批准所需的丰富的设计决策历史。
The COVID-19 pandemic has seen a surge in development of Open Source Hardware, especially open source ventilators. Many of these open source ventilator projects have adopted an open-when-finished model due to legitimate legal and liability concerns. This, however, has led to a proliferation of projects with teams across the world independently designing over a hundred mutually incompatible ventilators, representing a huge amount of duplicated effort. A functioning design is necessary but not sufficient for a project to help patients. The device must be taken through regulatory approval by a manufacturer that understands why design decisions were taken. In this article we argue that the open design process developed for Open Source Software can be used for Open Source Hardware. This process not only allows remote teams to work together improving a single design, it also provides the rich history of design decisions that manufacturers need to take the device through regulatory approval.