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A Hospital Mini Maker Faire

A Hospital Mini Maker Faire

Jose Gomez-Marquez

By Jose Gomez-Marquez

Jose Gomez-Marquez

Jose Gomez-Marquez directs the Little Devices Lab at MIT, which recently launched the MakerNurse project which aims to find, enable, and honor the stealth ingenuity of nurses who are making health hardware in America's healthcare system.

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  Let’s Make Health! That’s was the banner under which we all flew Wednesday, May 28th, 2014 at the Maimonides Medical Center Mini Maker Faire in Brooklyn. Fifty years ago, in that same hospital, Dr. Adrian Kantrowitz used modified electronic metronomes bought in Canal street to prototype the first implantable pacemakers. They hacked AM transistor […]

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