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Plan C Live: Maker Response To Covid-19 In Germany
Join Dale Dougherty, founder of Make: Magazine and Maker Faire and Andreas Kopp, founder of Erfindergarden in Munich to talk with some of the central activators, innovators, and organizers of the open source and maker response to COVID-19 in Germany. Panel of Guests: Dominik Wilming Karsten Nebe Peter Pröpper Nils Hitze Tom Hansing Daniel […]
Plan C: The Making of the Montana Mask
Dr. Marlin “Dusty” Richardson is a neurosurgeon in Billings, Montana. In the first week of March, the Billings Clinic, where Dusty Richardson works, sent out a memo to its staff. Shortages of masks would necessitate a change in policy — medical staff were now told to reuse masks, and the new policy was to use […]
Reserve Now! Kids Craft And Program Bugs LIVE, With Codejoy and Adam Lazarus
In this new and exclusive Maker Camp series, you can join CodeJoy’s Kelsey Derringer and PBS host Adam Lazarus for an educational and fun maker exploration of bugs, crafts, and coding. This private series has limited seats available, so reserve yours now ($50 per household). Your ticket gets you entry into both experiences where kids […]
Plan C: The Log of the StarVent Enterprise
I met Pat Starace last November at Maker Faire Orlando where he exhibited a toy Batmobile that he had outfitted with a jet engine. Pat is a professor at Full Sail University in Orlando with an incredible background and amazing stories. When I saw that he had developed a ventilator, I reached out to […]
Plan C Live: “Do Something” Bay Area’s Something Labs
Meet Sam, Matt, Eda and others from Something Labs, a distributed volunteer coalition based in the Bay Area that protects frontline medical workers by quickly innovating and bridging gaps between supply chains and medical systems. Their motto is: “After all, we all have to do something.” They are working to produce face shields, intubation […]
Plan C Live: UV-C Light Boxes and Decontamination Solutions
Decontamination is its own practice — the removal of pathogens from rooms, equipment and PPE. Effective decontamination also allows for re-use of PPE such as masks. There are various methods used in decontamination, many of them requiring expensive equipment. Using UV-C lights is one method and we’ll discuss with makers some of the low-cost […]