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onathan Azevedo runs an engineering company in South Florida that makes medical devices. This year has been a busy, challenging and stressful time for the 36-year-old robotics engineer. His 8-year-old Ft. Lauderdale firm, Outer Reef Technologies, was hard at work developing a free and open source medical ventilator when we went to press. Boating seemed a long way off. Still, even in the midst of the coronavirus outbreak and long days at work, there has been

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