Comprehensive coverage of the community response to the Covid-19 crisis.
In Atlanta, a civic response coordinated through four area makerspaces is going up against Covid-19 and hopes to beat it. This in another story in Makeโs chronicle of Plan C: A Civic Response to Covid-19. My initial experience of Decatur, GA was arriving at 6:00am on a drizzly Sunday morning in October 2015. Nothing was […]
MakerHealth caught up Rose Hedges RN, DNP a MakerNurse champion at St. Lukeโs hospital about her teamโs response to the COVID-19 outbreak to create hardware with frontline staff. How did the culture of St. Lukeโs Hospital prepare you and your team to respond to COVID-19?ย At St. Lukeโs Hospital, we have embraced the spirit of […]
PLAN C LIVE is an online conversation with Dorothy Jones-Davis of Nation of Makers and Dale Dougherty of Make: Community and a panel of makers about the civic response to COVID-19. Thank you to those who have been participating as panelists and those of you who attended through Zoom. We will be doing two PLAN […]
Two hours outside of Tokyo in Chiba prefecture is Hackerfarm, a hackerspace that applies technology to growing things like potatoes. Christopher Wang, better known as Akiba, is thinking that potatoes would feed a lot of people if food shortages result from COVID-19. The experiment is called Project Potatohead โ A Farm-to-Foodbank Initiative. However, Akiba […]
PLAN C LIVE is an online conversation with Dorothy Jones-Davis of Nation of Makers and Dale Dougherty of Make: Community and a panel of makers about the civic response to COVID-19. Thank you to those who have been participating as panelists and those of you who attended through Zoom. The Atlanta Beats COVID-19 group was […]
Now is not the time to stand up your organizationโs design challenge or hackathon. Itโs not productive and itโs not a good way for your organization to help.
In his 2005 book, Fab, Dr. Neil Gershenfeld predicted a shift from personal computing to personal fabrication and how manufacturing could be decentralized through networks.ย The Fab Lab Network is an experiment in bringing Gershenfeld’s vision aย reality. Today, with the criisisย of COVID-19, fab labs and makerspaces around the world are sharing designs that […]
