Comprehensive coverage of the community response to the Covid-19 crisis.
In such a crazy time, a place that calls itself an Asylum seems normal, and more productive and purposeful than most places in responding to shortages of medical supplies due to Covid-19. Here are people who think of themselves as creatives and makers, but they are usually seen as a bit crazy. In the madness […]
Next Thursday, May 21st, Public Invention will be hosting Vent-Con 2020, a virtual mini-convention focused on open source ventilators and the related learnings and developments that have transpired over the past few months with the Covid-19 pandemic. The three hour online event provides an interesting program that looks at the ventilator community, its challenges, developing […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
