At Tuesday August 17th the team in Ethiopia displayed the ‘Inspiration Ventilator’ at the “Exhibition on home-made COVID-19 Oriented Low Risk Biomedical Innovative Technologies”, in Addis Ababa. The team consists of local technical and biomedical experts, and is a local collaboration of the company Vital… Read More »Project Inspiration in Ethiopia
Where it all started… The East-Radcliffe Ventilator from the 1960’s that we were allowed to borrow in march 2020 from the collection of museum Boerhaave. Now, one year later, our updated version of the ventilator holds a spot in the collection of the museum next… Read More »Project Inspiration in Rijksmuseum Boerhaave
‘It’s been surprising to see what determination, science, and solidarity can really do. In literally four months we were able to go from nothing to a working machine, produced in a country that supposedly cannot feed its own population.’ Diego Quan, founder of non-profit Respira-Guatemala, sometimes… Read More »Providing Guatemala with mechanical ventilators to battle COVID-19
Last Week a delegacy from Guatemala, including the Guatemalan ambassador, visited our Project team and Jarik de Graaff from our partner ARA. We explained them about our design and its possibilities in low-resource hospitals in Guatemala. Furthermore we had an interesting conversation about the influence… Read More »Visit of the Guatemalan ambassador
From left to right: Thom Hubers, hard-and software engineer ARA, Marnix van Beem, student TU Delft, Erik Wildenbeest, manager R&D ARA, Jarik de Graaff, CEO ARA, Elizabeth Ward, ambassador of Panama and Armonia Chang de Belchieur, attaché. Picture: Gerard Mühlradt Last week Marnix of our… Read More »Shipment of two ventilator prototypes to Panama
The Embassy of Mexico in the Netherlands received the prototype of a mechanical ventilator developed by Delft University of Technology (TU Delft) within the framework of its Project Inspiration. The prototype will be lent to the government of Mexico to support its efforts in the… Read More »Mexico receives prototype of mechanical ventilator developed by Delft University of Technology to support research activities
Mike Yeats has written an explicit maintenance manual on the East Radcliffe ventilator, available at: https://theelectricsquirrel.wordpress.com/2013/11/22/east-radcliffe-ventilator-the-unofficial-manual/