A plethora of notes on varying Medical Tools

Gerrit Niezen, Parisa Eslambolchilar, Harold Thimbleby, Open source hardware for medical devices, 2016

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Retail medical objects: Kmart

A screen recording of Kmart website "Independent living" website, 2021

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DIY medical tools: Jose Gomez-Marquez, Little Devices Labs (MIT)

Part One

Notes:

• Utilising toys to make affordable medical devices

• Little devices that aren't available but benefitial

• Design focus

• Good supply chain of toys

• Harvesting component parts - usually electronic from toys

• Devices that bridge engineering and design skill with the general public

• sub-components

• coupling points - where things attaches

• already engineering - engender part - good quality - mechanical, electronic and chemistry

• Archive of toys with interesting parts

• demystification of medical technology

• Confidence of hacking the low-value object

Part Two

Notes:

• Medi kits - 5 - A collection of lego like parts - retrofits for medical technologies - Existing medical technologies combined with new transposed parts (from toys)

• Accessibility to making medical technology

• Invention still matters

• enabling technology - sustainable local technology

• Democratised medical technology

my Yellow underlying of key parts on screenshots from:https://jfgm.scripts.mit.edu/littledeviceslab/

Distributed Biological Foundries for Global Health Jose Gomez-Marquez, Kimberly Hamad-Schifferli https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/adhm.201900184 "Historically, many industries such as manufacturing have undergone a trend away from centralized, large-scale production toward a more distributed form. Currently, this same trend is witnessed in biological manufacturing and bioprocessing, with the rise of biological foundries where one can synthesize, grow, isolate, and purify a broad range of biologics. The adoption of distributed practices for biological processing has significant implications for healthcare, diagnostics, and therapies. This essay discusses the many diverse factors that have facilitated this growth, ranging from the establishment of available biological components, or “parts,” low-cost programmable hardware, and others. Currently existing examples of distributed biological foundries are also identified, separating the discussion into those that are accessible only by elite users and the more recent emerging foundries that are more accessible to the general population. Taking lessons from other fields, it is argued that this trend toward distributed biological manufacturing is inevitable, so adapting to this trend is important for the progress of creating new therapeutics, sensors, diagnostics, and reagents for biomedical applications."

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Ti Hoang, Rohit Ashok Khot, Noel Waite, Floyd Mueller, What can Speculative Design teach us about designing for healthcare services?, 2018 (Medical study)

With highlights and annotations...

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