Open charitable engineering concepts developed around real human needs — with technical assumptions, maturity and safety boundaries made visible from the beginning.
Technology Commons is Dromation's public-benefit engineering initiative. It provides a home for concepts whose primary purpose is social or humanitarian value rather than a conventional commercial product.
The aim is not to present unfinished ideas as finished solutions. Projects can begin as hypotheses and progress through engineering review, prototyping, verification and — where applicable — appropriate regulatory or clinical pathways.
A modular, atraumatic skin-interface research concept for people with epidermolysis bullosa, progressing from standalone protective components toward a future integrated system.
A lightweight, open and repairable hip-assist research concept intended to add limited assistance while the person remains in control of voluntary walking.
A low-cost, open and removable dual-motor assist concept for ordinary manual wheelchairs, focused on slope assistance while preserving manual control.
Technology Commons is intended to support serious technical collaboration around public-benefit engineering.
Relevant users, caregivers, engineers, researchers, clinicians and technical workshops can contribute perspectives on needs, assumptions, feasibility, repairability, testing and safety where appropriate.
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