Comprehensive coverage of the community response to the Covid-19 crisis.
As a reader of Make Magazine, you’re probably already well aware that makers are really coming through right now, creating all kinds of needed gear for people who are working in hospitals and essential businesses. We’ve seen, and told, a few stories ourselves. However, you might not be aware of just how massive the scale […]
Robert Read and his group have compiled a scored ranking of over 80 open source ventilator projects.
update: Here’s the video of the session below! You can sign up to join the next session, Tuesday April 21 7PM ET / 4PM PT by reserving your spot here. What: A Conversation about the Maker’s Civic Response When: Tuesday, April 14 2020 at 4pm PT / 7pm ET Register to get the information about […]
How the 3D design for a face shield was developed in the Syracuse area, modified and tested in Columbus Ohio in collaboration with a local VA hospital and then made its way to the NIH 3D Print Exchange where it was approved for clinical use.
If you need to sterilize your 3DP PPE, we can definitively say that these methods work.
A local hospital called a Seattle makerspace to ask if anyone could help out to provide them with masks and visors. A bit of a scramble ensued to figure out who could do what. Rory Larson, a maker with a mechanical engineering background, jumped in and spent the night iterating on a design. “So I […]
As we’ve been covering this event, we’re hearing various groups talk about how they’re organized and how they’re planning out their actions to deliver much needed DIY supplies to front-line workers. Something that feels a little unusual in 2020 is that we haven’t seen much in terms of video breaking down how people are doing […]
