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 Make’s 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. Luke’s hospital about her team’s response to the COVID-19 outbreak to create hardware with frontline staff. How did the culture of St. Luke’s Hospital prepare you and your team to respond to COVID-19? At St. Luke’s 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 — 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 organization’s design challenge or hackathon. It’s not productive and it’s 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. The Fab Lab Network is an experiment in bringing Gershenfeld’s vision a reality. Today, with the criisis of COVID-19, fab labs and makerspaces around the world are sharing designs that […]
