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It's called PEPit, and it can be found here: https://github.com/Dakkaron/PEPit
Most of the documentation is in German, since my primary audience so far were people living close enough that I can hand them devices and I haven't gotten around to translating everything to English. But I think it should be simple enough that auto-translation should be understandable.
That's what I have been doing so far. I "sold" a few of them for the price of the parts. I donated two to two different local hospitals to use with in-patients. I got a physiotherapy device company to donate money for a scientific study at one of the hospitals, where they will hand 30 devices to patients to keep them and measure how it improves their therapy experience. But so far that's pretty much the end of the road.
I'm already worrying about how I can even do the study without getting in trouble in regards to taxes and stuff.
It would be really cool if someone else would start picking these up and making some for kids that need it.
This is mainly made for kids with Cystic Fibrosis (like my kid, who was my original audience for the device), but I talked to a few people with broader experience in regards to lung conditions, and it would also work well for kids with Asthma (for RMT therapy) or people with COPD (for inhalation and PEP/RMT therapy). PEP is breathing out against resistance, RMT is breathing in against resistance.