Reducing complexity ➡️ reduced cost ➡️ reduced price.

Optical counters are the heart of high-performing CPCs. By using the latest in manufacturing technology and some ingenuity to simplify and modernize our optical counter, resulting in a 10x reduction in associated manufacturing costs.

Hope everyone enjoyed their Halloween weekend! Here at the OpenAeros offices, everyday is spooky season. 👹🎃💆‍♂️

In our last installment of Meet Our Makers, Wyatt walks us through his plans to investigate a bifold mask adaptor using OpenRespirator manufacturing techniques:

🦸How does anti-mask bias influence character design? And how does character design influence public sentiment about masking? Jon Jon has thoughts:

🦇🎃🧛 'Tis the season... to discuss some of our favorite all-time makes. In the spirit of his OpenRespirator build, Wyatt (one of our ORCC creatives 👻) fills us in on a set of Halloween teeth he absolutely Had To Have and how he taught himself to design and produce his own in middle school.

This isn't Jon Jon's first creative respirator rodeo 🐎 🤠

His personal, animation, and art background are filled with masked characters. Watch him walk us through that history here:

Join us this afternoon at 3pm CST for our first OpenRespirator Creative Cohort Live Meeting! Get to know our cohorts, get read-in on their efforts and progress, and ask your questions. Tune in here: bit.ly/48jHI6J
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Say hi to Wyatt! Wyatt's background is chemical and academic. His making has largely centered around passion projects combining his expertise with practical needs and curiosities. Here, he shares some thoughtful reflection on what masking can mean:

Jon Jon is an artist, animator, masker, and maker hailing from Toronto. Jon Jon has been executing his own PPE builds and mods for years, incorporating his hobbies and art with practical and health needs. Here, he talks about cosplay and masking and the exciting opportunities in their overlap:

This year, we’ve been working with a team of passionate, creative makers to put our open source respirator prototype manufacturing methods to the test. We’re so excited to be introducing you to a couple of them this week. In the meantime, here’s some background on what we’ve been up to: (1/4)

Aaron (and our little CPC! 🥹) are taking their places on the floor of the UN! This year is the inaugural General Assembly High Level Side Event on Indoor Air Quality and we're so excited to participate.

The panel will open soon, watch along here: webtv.un.org/en/asset/k1v...

#IndoorAir

So, why does clean air really *matter*? The hazards we breathe are largely invisible and - the way we usually read the data - the human cost of those hazards has been invisible too. Aaron makes the case than in 2022, poor air quality was the # 1 killer in America (1/)
www.youtube.com/live/b45hakf...

In the wake of federal changeover, March's EPA air sensor conference has been cancelled. We were excited to present work on community ultrafine exposure to our peers and policy makers. In lieu, we plan to make the presentation to the public online. Abstract is below.

You can’t cancel science.

Calling all covid conscious makers, product designers, and 3D artists! OpenAeros is excited to announce our search for makers, designers, and advocates to participate in a first-of-its-kind effort to develop three entirely new, entirely open source respirator designs. (1/4)

At OpenAeros, we strive to meet people where they are with the tools they need. Our mission of accessibility, inclusivity, and decentralized, open source collaboration makes the choice to pivot to using this as our primary social network an easy one. (1/2)

Come for the open source ethos, stay for the

Welcome two new employees to OpenAeros! One is excited to help change the world, and the other is cleaning the air. I will let you pick who is who 😀
Also add another to the #Vflexgang