This project is developed, maintained, and managed by the
FreeMoCap Foundation, a 501c3 non-profit corporation in the State of Massachusetts.
The FreeMoCap project began as a panicked attempt by Jon Matthis to
maintain productivity after his human subjects research plans collapsed in the early days of the Covid 19
pandemic.
The original plan was to create a tool that would make it possible to study the neural control of human
movement without access to the expensive, specialized motion capture equipment of his official research lab.
However, in the process of developing early proof-of-concept versions of this system it became clear that
there was a significant societal need for a high quality, minimum cost motion capture system. This (relatively
small scale) public need derives from a larger inequity - namely, the ever-growing gap between the general
population and the fruits of high science and technology.
From there, the focus of the project shifted from an effort to create a simple, in-lab research tool into the
large-scale public facing project that it is today. To learn more about the history and background of the
FreeMoCap project, please watch this presentation made
to The Gathering for Open Science Hardware (GOSH).
The FreeMoCap project is now and shall remain a long-term effort and a work in progress. Stay tuned!
If you would like to contibute financially, we provide links to a variey of donation services
below. If your preferred method is not listed please let us know via the Contact link.